In the poem, "North Country," Slessor mirrors the corrupted nature of human beings through critcizing their horrific actions in destroying the nature for their selfish desires. He circulates between the central themes of time and development and illuminates how profound love of beauty gradually fades away as the unconstrained evilness of humans continues to dominate the nature and monopolize it for their ever-increasing greed. Throughout the poem, Slessor have used poetic devices to inform us of the ugly nature of humans that is blinding us from the profound beauty of the environment. He begins the poem with a delighting image of personified “gesturing woods” and emphasizes its greatness through the repetition of this idea in the words “vertical” and “perpendicular”. However the “hidden valley”, an image of an undisturbed and peaceful area is shattered as we begin to realise that these are only the remains of the persona’s memories. This is emphasized by the semi-colon, which marks a passage of time, telling us that the great trees he used to touch was only something that “nobody cares” for. Slessor furthers his criticism towards our inhumane actions by embodying the presence of human qualities onto the trees. The motif showing recurring images of trees suffering and dying in pain clearly mirrors this, visible from how he describes the trees to be subjected to a “greedy death”. The word “greedy” is directed towards us humans, informing us that we have “bangled” their souls, and they could only relinquish their lives as we greedily turn them into “trunks of pewter”. Slessors’ success in using techniques to illustrate the devastation that human greed have bestowed upon the forest is obvious as the poem revolves around the themes of time and development comparing the natural past of profound beauty to the gluttonous present that is infiltrated and stained. Slessors’ use of repetition and structu