An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow-Les Murray. In Les Murray's 'An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow', there is a clear unconventional portrayal of the hero, and he shows many heroic concepts as a result of the dramatic techniques used to convey the notion of the weeping man not being society's 'conventional perception' of a hero. The poems persona is simply an un-named 'observer' who tells the story, in a third person present tense narrative form ("they") which assists in …
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…others and attain their attentions through his strength in sending across messages in unconventional ways make him heroic because he is just but a simple and ordinary man. Whether or not the weeping man achieved his un mentioned purpose is irrelevant, he is still a hero because he's purpose may of just been to cause this widespread feeling of belief among disbelievers, which he accomplished and is shown in the last line "evading (converted) believers".