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    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the Drought Year Group at eNotes.</description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Judith Wright, the author of &quot;Drought Year&quot;, does not discuss...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Judith Wright, the author of &quot;Drought Year&quot;, does not discuss in her poem the cause of the drought.  However, as is the case with all droughts, the cause is a lack of rainfall.  Rain is needed to provide water to both the vegetation and the animals on Earth, as well as to prevent the spread of fire.  When rain does not fall for an extended period, the water present evaporates and is not replaced, thus causing a drought.Wright...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Please name the cause of the drought in the poem &quot;Drought Year&quot;.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Please name the cause of the drought in the poem &quot;Drought Year&quot;.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:53:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Sidney Nolan is one of Australia's best known painters. In 1953, the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Sidney Nolan is one of Australia's best known painters. In 1953, the same year this poem was published, he was commissioned by the Australian government to draw pictures of the devastating drought. The second link below is for a fairly recent show of that work.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:36:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Can you direct me to any artworks by Australian artists that correspond...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Can you direct me to any artworks by Australian artists that correspond with the environment Judith Wright creates in her poem 'Drought Year'?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:00:33 PST</pubDate>
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