Sydney and the Bush
... Sydney and the Bush: Poem evoking Australia’s past and present The poem “Sydney and the Bush” describes the history of the modern world and the Australian Bush. The modern world is represented by convicts first, and then by colonists whereas the Bush stands for the Aborigines and Nature. The poem is divided into seven stanzas and each stanza chronologically describes the history of the relationship between Sydney and the Bush. ... From the beginning there is a hierarchy, as represented in the second stanza: “Then convicts bled and warders bred, the Bush went back and back”.