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Critical – Which poem or story that we have looked at so far made an impression on you? What was the impression it made? Why did it touch your feelings and imagination?

A mid-summer noon in Australian forest

The continuous use of personification throughout Charles Harpur’s ‘A mid-summer noon in the Australian Forrest’ invigorated my imagination through its slumberous pacing, it presents imagery to my head of the sunset nearing nightfall. Its use of an adjective that insinuated slumber reminds me of the times of when I was a child and my mother would attempt for me to nap at around the afternoon. In consequence, to its theme of sleepiness it’s pacing reflected its intentions being slow, almost a drowsiness while allowing to absorb the material and feel a relaxation hit me. As well as, It’s descriptions such as “heaves of slumberous breathe” of the ocean sea breeze reminds of a naps I would take as a child in a day care at a mid-summer noon hearing breathing and being entirely relaxed throughout it’s our time. The poem overall engages me through it’s descriptive use of language with metaphors and personification used through making me reminiscence over the nostalgic days of when i was a child and would relax being surrounded in that environment.