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"The Orange Tree"
by John Shaw Neilson
First published inThe Bookfellow, 15 February 1921
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Publication date1921
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"The Orange Tree" is a poem by Australian poet John Shaw Neilson. [1] It was first published in The Bookfellow on 15 February 1921, and later in the poet's collections and other Australian poetry anthologies.

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Outline

A young girl is in conversation with the narrator of the poem and discuss the light that is "not of the sky" that lies within the orange grove they see.

Analysis

The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature states that the poem was "inspired by the beauty of the orange groves at Merbein near Mildura in the Murray River irrigration area". It goes on to note that the poem "has sometimes been interpreted as youth's innate understanding of the natural beauty of life". [2]

A writer in The Cambridge History of Australian Literature described the poem as "symbolism with its sleeves rolled up". [3]

Further publications

The poem was also translated into Arabic in 1999. [34]

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References

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  2. ↑ The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature edited by Wilde, Hooton and Andrews, 2nd edition, p535
  3. ↑ The Cambridge History of Australian Literature edited by Peter Pierce, 1st edition, p206
  4. ↑ "An Australasian Anthology : Australian and New Zealand Poems edited by Percival Serle, R. H. Croll, and Frank Wilmot". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  5. ↑ "Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson edited by R. H. Croll". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  6. ↑ "An Anthology of Australian Verse (A&R)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  7. ↑ "The Boomerang Book of Australian Poetry (Longmans, Green)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
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