... due to the isolation resulting from his heavy loss. Along with first person narration, the repetition of his everyday normal activities also causes cumulative effects highlighting the widower's loneliness and need for companionship. The use of irony in "Christmas paddocks" also shows the Widower's situation. Christmas is a time for unity and celebration while the persona is alone emphasizing the fact that one joy in life has been lost. In addition, the personified words, in the lines "paddocks ACHING in the heat", "the windless trees", "visions smeared", "the screaming of claws" acts as metaphors of the widower himself describing his situation. Thus we can see solitude has caused change and how we react to this is what makes us human. Change emanating from isolation is a human condition defining who we are. Captured in Les Murray's The Widower in the Country Isolation is also conceptualized but transposed into a different context ...

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