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"How does Kenneth Slessor present his ideas in his poetry? Refer ro the poem you have just heard plus any poem set for study. Comment approaches to Criticism and different interpretations of the poem." Kenneth Slessor is a successful Australian poet, famous for bringing the Australian countryside to urban readers. The poem, "Beach Burial" is an elegy for dead sailors of all nations washed ashore on the beach at El Alamein. Slessor conveys his many …

…rather than by force, so how can they be dead? This feeling of protection evoked by the 'convoys' is ironic in the face of death. A psychoanalytical reading of Beach Burial may suggest that the sobbing of the gunfire is much more than the mere, mechanical noises of weapons, but human dignity itself, sobbing over the entire process of war. Death leaves the helpless soldiers without a will, without consciousness and robbed of their identity.