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Metaphor - "heart of anger"

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"Ride easy stranger" - calm, surrender and accept. Suggests to take a moment to appreciate the beauty of the weather in the high country and there is something much bigger than ourselves. The physical world is used to convey emotions of the human world.

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Heart of anger - red-gold. Red shows passion, love, caution and anger which is then reinforced later on by 'heart of anger' this suggests how ....?

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Extended metaphor of dying?

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metaphor - "heart of anger"

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Contrast - "Alone we are born and die alone"

Passage of time - where you start is where you end (Ross)

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Compound Words
red-gold

Snow-mountain

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The repetition of alone suggests that the high country is a very isolated and therefore peaceful landscape

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Changing from 'we' to 'your' suggests that the audience is now not a part of the landscape and no longer considered as a 'land owner'

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identify sound techniques:

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identify figurative language:

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list egs of contrast:

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identify the compound words

meaning?

why use these?

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spot the shift from 'we' to 'your'

what does this do to POV?

what does this do to the tone?

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note the repetition of 'alone'

what does poet mean by this?

why did he write it like this?

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note the repetition of 'alone'

what does poet mean?

why has he written it like this?

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High Country Weather

Alone we are born

And die alone

Yet see the red -gold cirrus

Over snow- mountain shine.

Upon the upland road

Ride easy, stranger:

Surrender to the sky

Your heart of anger

B James K Baxter 1948