Banjo Patterson

He spent his early years growing up on his family station becoming familiar with and learning the ways of the drovers, teamsters and other bush workers. His parents, Andrew Bogle and Rose Isabella Paterson were graziers. His early education took place at home under the supervision of a tutor and then attended the bush school in Binalong. From the age of 10 he attended the Sydney Grammar School. After completing school, he was 16 years old when he was articled to a Sydney firm of solicitors. In 1886 he was acknowledged as a solicitor and formed the legal partnership, Street and Paterson. During those years, he began publishing verses in the bulletin and Sydney mail under the name ‘B” and ‘Banjo”.

During his younger years, his father, from a Scottish background took the opportunity to teach his son the traditional Scottish ballads which later on influenced him to write traditional songs. He was also inspired to write poems as his Gran

In South Africa during the Boer war, 1899, he was a war correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald Sun. He was then assigned to China in 1901, to report on the Boxer Rebellion, however the uprising of the war had ceased. He then returned back to Australia in 1902 and lectured for a period of time on the Boer war. After that, he worked as a newspaper and magazine editor. He eventually became a wanderer. He drove ambulances in France and also served in Egypt during World War 1 and was made a C.B.E in 1930.

“Waltzing Matilda” is probably more familiar to Australians like me who grew up hearing the song. It’s not the national anthem, but in a sense it is sort of a folk anthem. Surprisingly the poem is actually pretty sad. A swagman (for example a homeless man in the outback) captures an animal and puts it in his small bag for dinner. The cops get upset with him for stealing the animal and he jumps into the nearby billabong (pond) to escape them, drowning at the same time. Basically this theme tells us about the very Australian concept of uneven power. Even the Parliament building in Canberra has grass on its roof to remind Australians that Australia is a democratic country and also they have the power over the government. Banjo Patterson is a folk poet in a sense cap

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