Orstralia
Orstralia - meaning Summary
Affection Turned Absurd
Spike Milligan's Orstralia is a short comic love-song to a place called Orstralia that lampoons sentimental patriotic verse. The speaker professes obsessive, near-absurd devotion at all hours, using deliberate mispronunciations and bodily imagery—heart, kidney, liver, giblets—to deflate grand rhetoric and replace it with silly, physical affection. The poem mixes earnest tone and nonsense to expose and mock overblown declarations of love for a country.
Read Complete AnalysesOrstralia – Orstralia We think of you each day Orstralia – Orstralia At work or at play. We think of yew in the morning And in the evening too We even wake up at mid-night So that we can think of you. Orstralia – Orstralia We love you from the heart The kidney, the Liver and the giblets, And every other part.
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