"An absolutely ordinary raibow" by Les Murray

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 portraying the notion that a weeping hero actually did walk the earth and that its just not an event created in the mind, of…