Banjo Patterson Influence On Australian Identity

Writers such as Lawson, Gilmore who began to use the term mate and others in their poetry, which they became famous legends. The bush legend, Banjo Paterson, had an influence when it came to Australian literature because he had been acknowledged for the use of the terms identity and nationalism, which were thought to be romanticized because he wanted to connect the city people to the rural people. The poems and songs that he had written were used in many different forms of literature which had been acknowledge. Therefore, what role did Banjo Paterson have when it came to nationalism and identity, how were they represented in his work?.

To begin with, the role that Banjo Paterson had written in his poems was to use them to romanticize about

Moreover, then the very thought of a non-Australian fitting that description was then viewed as being very unthinkable in terms of the Australian identity. Secondly, the identity and nationalism idea that Banjo Paterson wanted, was used to create one idea that could be known under the nationalism banner in literature. However, on the other hand, according to R.Ward (1958), argued that the characteristic of the typical Australian society had been forged from the nineteenth century frontier which involved the wars such as the Gallipoli landing that had occurred, which the idea of mateship was first used by Paterson to connect the soldiers together as comrades (1958). Furthermore, R. Ward (1958) also then had argued that the legend of the bush had also been shaped by the many debates that had been happening in other countries such as Europe.(1958). It the idea of mateship that Australia had been shaped by the cultural disposition that had occurred within the nationalism of the country’s history itself.

It could then be argued that the idea of Nationalism and also identity had been very important to the person had an affection to the people of the outback because of the rugged outlook and the comradeship that the people had despite the hardships that were present in the outback. Consequently, according to Heseltine,(1994), who argued, that Paterson’s

But then it was Banjo Paterson whose Old bush songs that had been very significant at first because they were first produced as being a collection of poems that have been produced to reflect the meaning of what it is like to have the Australian