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...stralian anthology. Beveridge’s poems “Fox in a Tree Stump”, “The Domesticity of Giraffes” and “Orb Spider” convey various themes about the order of the natural world, particularly about the domination of man and the role of every entity in the universe. ... However, Beveridge uses language to be interpreted at both the literal and figurative level: “the short time it takes a tongue/ to reach into a hurting body and strike ashes” describing the painful physical state of the fox and the emotional state of the girl where all she can taste is ashes. ... The use of figurative language highlighting Beveridge’s skills as a poet, as well as further establishing the cruel actions of man over the natural world, similar to the caged giraffes in “The Domesticity of Giraffes”. In “The Domesticity of Giraffes” Beveridge depicts the captivity of a pair of giraffes in their pen at Taronga Zoo. Beveridge begins with literal language t...