Jack Cornstalk as a Poet
Jack Cornstalk as a Poet - meaning Summary
Solitude Under Southern Stars
The poem presents a solitary bush figure who finds poetic inspiration not in coastal or river scenes but in the vast, ancient desolation of the inland night. After a long hot day the weary traveller camps on One Tree Plain, uses his saddle as a pillow, and sleeps beneath a moonlit tree. In sleep he drifts into a distant, hazy memory of a home-world, mixing loneliness with faint longing.
Read Complete AnalysesNot from the seas does he draw inspiration, Not from the rivers that croon on their bars; But a wide, a world-old desolation – On a dead land alone with the stars. The long hot day gone over, And starlight come again; And I, weary rover, Lie camped on One Tree Plain. My saddle for a pillow, I lie beneath the tree, That softens to a willow, In the moonlight over me. I dream that I remember A dim and distant day, Beyond yon misty timber, In the Home-world far away.
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