Hawkers
Hawkers - meaning Summary
Rural Life in Motion
The poem sketches a brief, vivid snapshot of an itinerant hawker’s van passing through a dusty Australian landscape. Through compressed images — a bay horse and mate, a brick-brown woman and children, feed-bags, bedding and a blackened bucket — it evokes routine movement, weariness and the small communities linked by traveling traders. The tone is observational, offering a social glimpse of outback life and labor through a single transient scene.
Read Complete AnalysesDust, dust, dust and a dog – Oh! The sheep-dog won’t be last. When the long, long, shadow of the old bay horse With the shadow of his mate is cast. A brick-brown woman with the brick-brown kids, And a man with his head half-mast, The feed-bags hung and the bedding slung, And the blackened bucket made fast Where the tailboard clings to the tucker and things – So the hawker’s van goes past.
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