How does Judith Wright use imagery in Drought Year?

Death and lack of water are powerful images in the poem. The animals and plants subject to the drought represent another side of nature: nature as victim, except, that is, the poem's wagtail, an Australian bird taking advantage of the drought's killing fields by pecking out the eyes in a "seething skull."

That time of drought the embered air burned to the roots of timber and grass. The crackling lime-scrub would not bear and Mooni Creek was sand that year.

I saw the eel wither where he curled in the last blood-drop of a spent world.

Drought Year

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