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Banjo Paterson was an Australian bush author who is remembered for his ballads about life in Australia. He focused on the outback and what rural life was like for the communities who lived there. Some of his best-known poems are ‘Clancy of the Overflow’ and ‘Waltzing Matilda.’
‘The Man from Snowy River’ by Banjo Paterson is an example of a Bush Ballad. It deals with the Australian ideology of horsemanship.
There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around
That the colt from Old Regret had got away,
And had joined the wild bush horses - he was worth a thousand pound,
So all the cracks had gathered to the fray.
Paterson’s ‘A Ballad of Ducks’ uses wild storytelling to show how absurd it is to rely on ducks during a grasshopper plague.
The railway rattled and roared and swung
With jolting and bumping trucks.
The sun, like a billiard red ball, hung
In the Western sky: and the tireless tongue
Paterson’s ‘The Plains’ depicts the unpredictable Australian landscape, swinging between lush abundance and stark desolation.
A land, as far as the eye can see, where the waving grasses grow
Or the plains are blackened and burnt and bare, where the false mirages go
Like shifting symbols of hope deferred; land where you never know.
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