Train Journey Comments
Glassed with cold sleep and dazzled by the moon,
out of the confused hammering dark of the train
I looked and saw under the moon's cold sheet
your delicate dry breasts, country that built my heart;
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Judith Wright encourages the land to fight back for itself " clench down your strength..." she expresses a deep and personal connection with the land here, but she is also separated from it. This is because of the window of the train between her and the land, this is shown through para-rhyme of couplets.
I believe that the train train is representing the social barrier between the white an aboriginal people.
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