Beach Burial
The picture, that I have drawn, is representing the poem “Beach Burial� by Kenneth Slessor. In this picture I have concentrated on the lines “ the convoys of dead sailors come� and “Unknown seaman - the ghostly pencil waver and fades, the purple drips� which is in the first and the fourth verse of this five verse poem. In the poem “Beach Burial� Slessor talks about how sailors and soldiers are shot and killed and left floating in the water which he describes as “the convoy of dead sailors�. But there is a person who has the time to “pluck them from the shallows and bury them in burrows and tread the sand upon their nakedness�. This person also makes crosses for them and writes “unknown seamen� which becomes smudged from the rain. Finally Slessor is pointing out what a waste of life it is when the enemies become equal
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Some common words found in the essay are:
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Approximate Word count = 582
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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