Nationality (poem)

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"Nationality"
by Mary Gilmore
First published inThe Australian Poetry 1942 edited by Robert D. Fitzgerald
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Publication date1942

"Nationality" is a poem by Australian poet Mary Gilmore. [1] It was first published in Australian Poetry 1942, edited by Robert D. Fitzgerald in 1942, [2] and later in the poet's collection Selected Verse, and other Australian poetry anthologies.

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The poem examines the conflicting emotions raised by war: the love of one's own people, and the desire for an international sense of brotherhood.

Analysis

The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature states that in this poem Mary Gilmore "while conceding the need for internationalism, acknowledges the pre-eminent claims of race and blood". [3]

In her collection of critical essays on Australian literature, Australian Classics: 50 great writers and their celebrated works, Jane Gleeson-White found the poem is "a concentration of intense and conflicting emotion in two stanzas." She concluded that the poem "has the force of truth." [4]

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