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It's Dorothea Mackellar.

She came from a wealthy landowning family. She wrote the poem when she was away at school in England at 19.

Sometime before 1908, while on a visit to England, a homesick young Australian woman put her thoughts down on paper in a poem she called 'Core of My Heart'.

This famous poem (later retitled 'My Country') is believed to have been directly inspired by Dorothea Mackellar's experience of life on the land, and her love of the Allyn River district, NSW.

From 1898 to 1901, the Mackellars owned Torryburn station, near East Gresford, NSW, during one of the region's driest times. While holidaying at the property the family witnessed the breaking of a drought. In later life, Dorothea Mackellar recalled how, after the rain, the grass began to shoot across the parched, cracked soil of the paddocks and, as she watched from the verandah, the land to the horizon turned green before her eyes.

Dorothea Mackellar's iconic verse is now regarded by many Australians as the universal statement of our nation's connection to the land.

The narrator is an Australian talking to an English person. She sometimes says "we" including her countrymen.

juxtaposition between English and Australian countryside:

green and shaded lanes, ordered woods and gardens, grey-blue distance, brown streams, soft dim skies of England

vs

sunburnt country,sweeping plains, ragged mountain ranges, droughts and flooding rains, crimson soil, pitiless blue sky, stark white ringbarked forests

an old land vs. a young land

a sedate land vs. a land of dramatic changes and contrasts especially the weather

figurative-- rain is the drumming of an army, paddocks are thirsty, a willful lavish land, opal-hearted

The country has a life of its own, a strong powerful life, a personality. This country is the core of her heart.

adjectival phrases: hot gold rush of noon- --orchid-laden tree-ferns----sapphire-misted mountains

These are vivid images that bring the scenes to life in the imagination

As for number 9-- what do YOU think? Do you love the land like that? Do you go into the great outdoors much? Does it bring out any deep emotions? When you live on a ranch or station, you are more involved with nature. But I suppose most Aussies live in cities and suburbs.

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