"The Silo" Long Essay

Set in Rural Australia, The Silo, by John Kinsella, portrays many of the author's thoughts and concerns about the rural Australian landscape and those people who inhabit it. He reveals these feelings through literary techniques including metaphors, personification, enjambment and most importantly, imagery. Some of the themes included within the poem include the isolation of the Australian bush, and the code of silence that exists in rural communities. The ideas within the poem are reinforced …

…those people who inhabit it. He conveys these themes and issues through the use of poetic techniques such as metaphors, personification, enjambment and most importantly, imagery. He also strengthens the meaning of the poem through the structure of the poem, and the use of such things as enjambment. The Silo by John Kinsella is a poem set in the Western Australian wheatbelt, and addresses some of the issues raised in many of Kinsella's other poems.