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=﻿ Australian War Culture =

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Welcome to our Wiki. In the upcoming weeks, this space will become filled with images, videos, poems, songs and text regarding the Australian cultural perspective in Gallipoli, WWI. We chose Gallipoli so that we could find out more about the ANZACs and how they reacted in the campaign. We want to remember them as the brave valiant young Aussie Men. They shall not grow old as we grow old. ====== =

This is one of the photographs of the ANZACs landing on the Gallipoli shores. 



This is a video from YouTube showing the trailer for the 1981 film Gallipoli, directed by Peter Weir and staring Mel Gibson.

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 = The Last To Leave = had bowed their grasses to a gentle breeze I gazed upon the vales and on the rills, And whispered, "What of these?' and "What of these? These long forgotten dead with sunken graves, Some crossless, with unwritten memories Their only mourners are the moaning waves, Their only minstrels are the singing trees And thus I mused and sorrowed wistfully
 * The guns were silent, and the silent hills

I watched the place where they had scaled the height, The height whereon they bled so bitterly Throughout each day and through each blistered night I sat there long, and listened - all things listened too I heard the epics of a thousand trees, A thousand waves I heard; and then I knew The waves were very old, the trees were wise: The dead would be remembered evermore- The valiant dead that gazed upon the skies, And slept in great battalions by the shore. ||

This poem "The Last To Leave" by Leon Gellert written in 1918.

=//**Commentary: **//= =﻿ = =Gallipoli Poem=

written by Syncarpia on March 21 2008
Australia is my home, my life, I live here with my lovely wife, But I was shipped off to the bloody war, And everybody gaped in awe, They could not believe that a man like me, Went off to fight in Gallipoli,

I am on a military boat, Heading for my almost certain doom, Fear surrounds me, <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18pt;">It’s the same with everyone in the room,

<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18pt;">Gunfire and bombs fill my ears, <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18pt;">So far away from all my peers, <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18pt;">My friends were shot down one by one, <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18pt;">My mouth watered for a nice sweet bun, <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18pt;">Suddenly my eyes turned red, <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18pt;">“YOU BLOODY TURKS PREPARE TO BE DEAD!”

<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18pt;">I fired my gun high into the air, <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18pt;">I was attracting attention, I didn’t care, <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18pt;">I took a bullet in the leg, and one in the face, <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18pt;">I saw many others sharing a similar fate,

<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18pt;">I was lying in my watery grave, <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18pt;">One of my comrades being brave, <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18pt;">Ran into gunfire and lifted me up, <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18pt;">Carried me away like some young pup, <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18pt;">Caked in mud, <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18pt;">A fight for breath,

<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18pt;">COMMENTARY:

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18pt;">The poem, Gallipoli is a poem that openly subverts the typical idea of Gallipoli, that it was not a god idea to go to Gallipoli, The ANZACS were reckless and it was stupidity as they all knew that they were going to die. Why should we glorify them for their loss against the Turks. There are many different techniques that have been used throughout this poem to portray the subvert view against the war in Gallipoli, to give the sad and very bleak outlook and the ANZACS and the war in Gallipoli. The writer of the poem, Syncarpia, uses a wide range of techniques to show us the subverted view of the Australian Cultural perspective. Syncarpia uses Masculine rhyme “But I was shipped off to the bloody war, And everybody gaped in awe,” he uses this technique to show us the strong anger many had towards the Gallipoli campaign and being killed for no reason. Syncarpia also uses Natural/human Imagery “Gunfire and bombs fill my ears, So far away from all my peers,” He uses this techniques to give the reader and idea in what it was like to be there and how distressed, distraught the soldiers were feeling and how reckless they were and un prepared they were. Syncarpia also uses external rhyme “But I was shipped off to the bloody war, And everybody gaped in awe” He uses this technique as rhyme helps the poem sound good in our ears, which helps to try engage the reader into believing his idea that the Gallipoli war was a stupid and terrible idea and it cost the ANZAC soldiers heavily. With all the uses of all of these techniques the poem/song really does subvert the typical Australian cultural perspective on the War in Gallipoli and the ANZAC soldiers, thus persuading us to believe that the Gallipoli war, the partake of the ANZACS in Gallipoli was a stupid and reckless.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt;">The Bravest Thing God Ever Made ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">The skies that arched his land were blue, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">His bush-born winds were warm and sweet, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">And yet from earliest hours he knew <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">The tides of victory and defeat; <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">From fierce floods thundering at his birth, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">From red droughts ravening while he played, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">He learned to fear no foes on earth — <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">"The bravest thing God ever made!"

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">The bugles of the Motherland <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">Rang ceaselessly across the sea, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">To call him and his lean brown band <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">To shape Imperial destiny; <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">He went, by youth's grave purpose willed, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">The goal unknown, the cost unweighed, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">The promise of his blood filled — <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">"The bravest thing God ever made!"

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">We know – it is our deathless pride! <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">The splendour of his first fierce blow; <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">How, reckless, glorious, undenied, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">He stormed those steel-lined cliffs we know! <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">And none who saw him scale the height <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">Behind his reeking bayonet-blade <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">Would rob him of his title-right — <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">"The bravest thing God ever made!"

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">Bravest, where half a world of men <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">Are brave beyond all earth's rewards, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">So stoutly none shall charge again <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">Till the last breaking of the swords; <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">Wounded or hale, won home from war, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">Or yonder by the Lone Pine laid. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18pt;">Give him his due for evermore — <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">"The bravest thing God ever made!" <span style="color: #8800ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">This is a song written by William Henry Ogilvie and sung and produced by May Summerbelle in 1916;"Dedicated to the Anzacs including my brother, W.R. Summerbelle, of the 1st Company, 1st Field Engineers." <span style="color: #8800ff; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 18pt;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18pt;">﻿COMMENTARY: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18pt;">The text the Bravest thing God has ever seen is a poem/song that supports the idea that the Gallipoli war that was a wonderful experience that should be appreciated by all Australian for their proud part in the war to defeat the Germans and the Turks. There are many parts that can be found in the poem/song that really shows the Australian Cultural perspective, that the soldiers were courageous and heroic. Ogilvie uses the range of poetry techniques to show this. Ogilvie uses Refrain “ The bravest thing god ever made”. This technique really adds to the idea, of supporting the Australian cultural perspective, that the ANZAC soldiers were courageous, heroic and bravest people, to go off to another Country and fight for the freedom of our lives back home, this is supported by the way that it is repeated after every stanza thus making sure that we do not forget it. Ogilvie also uses Personification “ From fierce floods thundering at this birth,” he uses this technique to persuade the reader that what the ANZAC soldiers did was tough and brave, that they faced, and how everything and the elements was against them but they kept on pushing forward. Ogilvie also uses Natural Imagery “ He stormed those steel-lined cliffs we know!” He uses this to really show how hard and harsh the land was, and how hard it was for the ANZACS to not only be fighting the Turks, but to be fighting the landscape as well. It also shows the struggles with the landscape that the ANZACS had and were faced with and the conditions that they were given. This poem really portrays the Australian cultural perspective that the ANZAC soldiers who fought for our freedom, that the are brave, courageous and heroic,

**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">Gallipoli Visual Text Analysis: ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">﻿ [|Gallipoli Visual Text Powerpoint.pptx]

This is our powerpoint presentation about our visual.