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Summary of the poem old prison

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Answered by pragya5063
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"The Old Prison" is one of Judith Wright's best poems. It tells of the early days of settlement in Australia and the inmates hardships in - most probably - Port Arthur Prison. This poem uses a large number of similes and metaphors combined with some strong imagery. The notion of prison is made more harsh through the sustained image of a stark environment and the personification of the wind blowing “from the blue caves of the South... like an angry bee”. 

Nature is no longer the inmates friend. It is to be painfully endured during their term of incarceration. References are made to the absence of normal human activity. The inmates are described as being in a nest but not one consisting of warmth and security. Their nest is more like that of a seabird that builds its nest precariously on the side of a cliff. Like them, the inmates are lone, solitary figures deprived of human love and warmth.

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Answered by marishthangaraj
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Summary of the poem old prison.

EXPLANATION:

  • The Old Prison stated is the damage at Trial Bay, close to the seashore resort of South West Rocks, Kempsey, New South Wales.
  • In 1816 the brig 'Trial' become seized with the aid of a number of the convicts aboard.
  • In January 1817 it is damaged which became placed in a extensive, deep bay near the mouth of the Macleay River.  
  • The bay became then named after the wrecked deliver.  
  • It have become a place of safe haven for coastal delivery and prison labour became introduced in to enlarge place with a breakwater.  
  • Work began on the development of a jail, the primary wing completed in 1879 but the first prisoners did not circulate in until 1886.  
  • The jail was closed in 1903 however re-opened for the duration of the 1914-1918 struggle.  
  • Over 500 German prisoners of war were held there but the building became all over again closed.  
  • Many years later due to the ravages of warfare and vandals the destroy is however a shell of it's former self however the ecosystem within the remaining walls is tangible.
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