The Tomb of Lt. John Learmonth, AIF single work   poetry   war literature   "This is not sorrow, this is work : I build"
First known date: 1945 Issue Details: First known date: 1945... 1945 The Tomb of Lt. John Learmonth, AIF
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Notes

  • Epigraph: 'At the end on Crete he took to the hills, and said he'd fight it out with only a revolver. He was a great soldier.' (One of his men in a letter)
  • First published in the New Republic 1945. (Oxford Companion to Australian Literature)

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Alternative title: Nisan Letnan John Learmonth, AIF
First line of verse: "This is not sorrow, this is work : I build=Ini bukan duka, ini kerja; aku membangun"
Language: English , Indonesian
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War, Crisis, and Identity in Australian Poetry Dan Disney , 2024 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry 2024; (p. 38-53)

' This chapter contextualises Australia’s involvement in major conflicts in light of the European invasion of Australia and the settler-colonial imaginary. It considers how poetry shaped the ANZAC myth extended settler masculinities and portrayed the soldier as both ordinary and extraordinary. The chapter considers divergent trajectories in World War II poetry, including the work of Kenneth Slessor, J. S. Manifold, James McAuley, and Douglas Stewart. It also considers responses to the Vietnam War, such as Bruce Dawe’s “Homecoming.” While the chapter investigates the dismantling of the soldier myth in late twentieth-century poetry, it also notes colonial presumptions persisting in works like Les Murray’s “Visiting Anzac in the Year of Metrification.” It then outlines the emergence of Indigenous counter-narratives to the violence of settler colonialism.'

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y separately published work icon Tributary Streams: Some Sources of Social and Political Concerns in Modern Australian Poetry Bruce Dawe , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1992 Z57071 1992 single work criticism
John Manifold : A Tribute Bill Scott , 1985 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Overland , July no. 99 1985; (p. 38-40)
y separately published work icon Tributary Streams: Some Sources of Social and Political Concerns in Modern Australian Poetry Bruce Dawe , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1992 Z57071 1992 single work criticism
John Manifold : A Tribute Bill Scott , 1985 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Overland , July no. 99 1985; (p. 38-40)
War, Crisis, and Identity in Australian Poetry Dan Disney , 2024 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry 2024; (p. 38-53)

' This chapter contextualises Australia’s involvement in major conflicts in light of the European invasion of Australia and the settler-colonial imaginary. It considers how poetry shaped the ANZAC myth extended settler masculinities and portrayed the soldier as both ordinary and extraordinary. The chapter considers divergent trajectories in World War II poetry, including the work of Kenneth Slessor, J. S. Manifold, James McAuley, and Douglas Stewart. It also considers responses to the Vietnam War, such as Bruce Dawe’s “Homecoming.” While the chapter investigates the dismantling of the soldier myth in late twentieth-century poetry, it also notes colonial presumptions persisting in works like Les Murray’s “Visiting Anzac in the Year of Metrification.” It then outlines the emergence of Indigenous counter-narratives to the violence of settler colonialism.'

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