Beach Burial by Kenneth Slessor

The picture, that I have drawn, is representing the poem “Beach Burial'? by Kenneth Slessor. In this picture I have concentrated on the lines “ the convoys of dead sailors come'? and “Unknown seaman - the ghostly pencil waver and fades, the purple drips'? which is in the first and the fourth verse of this five verse poem.

In the poem “Beach Burial'? Slessor talks about how sailors and soldiers are shot and killed and left floating in the water which he describes as “the convoy of dead sailors'?. But there is a person who has the time to “pluck them from the shallows and bury them in burrows and tread the sand upon their nakedness'?. This person also makes crosses for them and writes “unknown seamen'? which becomes smudged from the rain. Finally Slessor is pointing out what a waste of life it is when the enemies become equal

It also makes you feel there is a great waste of human life all for a little sand.

In conclusion my picture was meant to show “the convoy of dead sailors come” as well as “unknown seaman”. Written on the cross is “unknown seamen” and like how Slessor describes the writing it is smudged. This picture is describing the way that the bodies are floating together to form what happens to look like a boat. This is because it has made it sound that human life can be wasted in huge numbers and it doesn’t matter. In doing this it increases the point which Slessor is making about how enemies or not, they are all equal after