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Can anybody do a Poetry appreciation/ analysis of Judith Wright's poem 'The Surfer'?

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The analysis has to say the tone and rhyming pattern

and also the techniques used.

He thrust his joy against the weight of the sea;

climbed through, slid under those long banks of

foam—-

(hawthorn hedges in spring, thorns in the face stinging).

How his brown strength drove through the hollow and coil

of green-through weirs of water!

Muscle of arm thrust down long muscle of water;

and swimming so, went out of sight

where mortal, masterful, frail, the gulls went wheeling

in air as he in water, with delight.

Turn home, the sun goes down; swimmer, turn home.

Last leaf of gold vanishes from the sea-curve.

Take the big roller’s shoulder, speed and serve;

come to the long beach home like a gull diving.

For on the sand the grey-wolf sea lies, snarling,

cold twilight wind splits the waves’ hair and shows

the bones they worry in their wolf-teeth. O, wind blows

and sea crouches on sand, fawning and mouthing;

drops there and snatches again, drops and again snatches

its broken toys, its whitened pebbles and shells.

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  1. You should do your own homework.  

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