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My Country Poem by Dorothea Mackellar. Read Dorothea Mackellar poem:The love of field and coppice, Of green and shaded lanes. Of ordered woods and www.doorway.ru: Dorothea Mackellar.  · My Country by Dorothea Mackellar www.doorway.ru@lancescoular/my-country-by-dorothea-mackellar-the-written-poem-and-spoken-on-videoMy Country. The words sung here are from the text of the famous poem known as “My country” from the official Dorothea McKellar website www.doorway.ru

Dorothea Mackellar was born on 1 July She was an Australian poet and fiction writer. Mackellar was educated at home and began writing at a very young age. Her best-known poem is My Country, written at age 19 in , while homesick in England. This poem deals with nature descriptions about Australia. Dorothea Mackellar: "My Country" Core of my heart, my country! Her pitiless blue sky, When, sick at heart, around us We see the cattle die But then the grey clouds gather. Dorothea Mackellar's My Country www.doorway.ru COUNTRY: ANALYSIS Dorothea Mackellar's 'My Country' is a poem expressing Mackellar's deep passion and love for her country, www.doorway.ru use of first person throughout the whole poem suggests that the theme of this poem has been evoked by personal experience.

Septem. A powerful poem about Australia and about nature, My Country by Dorothea Mackellar persuades us to think deeply about our planet and appreciate the small things in life. My country, first and foremost, is a poem about Australia. Its beauty and its wrath. Its kindness and its temper. Core of my heart, my country! Her pitiless blue sky, When sick at heart, around us, We see the cattle die – But then the grey clouds gather, And we can bless again The drumming of an army, The steady, soaking rain. Core of my heart, my country! Land of the Rainbow Gold, For flood and fire and famine, She pays us back threefold – Over the thirsty paddocks. Dorothea Mackellar was born in Sydney in into a well-established, wealthy family, and was educated privately at the University of Sydney. At 19 years old she wrote a poem, 'My Country', the second verse of which is perhaps the best known stanza in Australian poetry.