Les Murray "The Burning Truck" and "Widower in the Country"

In The poems "The Burning Truck" and "Widower in the Country" Murray uses imagery, metaphors and personification to enhance the impact of the poems on the reader. "The Burning Truck". The Poem is about war and shows how it can bring out the most primitive emotions out of people. The Poem also shows that during war time regular laws do not exist but a different set of wartime rules and the war will continue. The …

…His bright visions are probably of his wife when she was alive and his dark thoughts are of present times when his sad and alone - The Purpose is to give the reader an image of what is being said in the poem. As shown in the two poems Murray shows that the use of metaphors, personification and imagery can greatly enhance the reading of a poem and make it more interesting to the reader.