Throughout the poem First Born, the poet conveys the idea of anger and frustration about the despair over the death of the Aboriginal race. The use of the second person pronoun 'you' in the third stanza, is effectively use to incriminate the reader for destroying the nature of the land and the race of the Indigenous Aboriginals. In addition the use of personification is convey to create more imaginative effect of disappointment and frustration ,'Where are my first-born, said the brown land, sighing'. Jack Davis passion for Aboriginal cause was stated through the poem as he clearly reveals his tone of outrage of the devastating experience of the Aboriginal people. The poem 150 Years relates to the idea of passion as Jack Davis expresses his passion about educating and informing the present on how the white settlers impacted the Indigenous Aboriginals life.
The essay is certainly a Juvenalian satire that is aimed at making his contemporary readers recognize the kind of cold, calculating inhumanity of blunt rationalism when used to address social problems such as poverty and overpopulation.”(Nicole Smith) “Ireland in the 1720s was a dependent kingdom of the recently-formed United Kingdom. Hampered by England's mercantilist trade policies, dominated religiously by the Anglican Church of Ireland, Ireland's chiefly Roman Catholic, Gaelic-speaking population toiled in penury. The Cromwellian and Williamite land confiscations of the seventeenth century left the Irish peasant subject to "rack-rent" exploitation. Sequential bad harvests in 1728 and 1729 aggravated already dour circumstances, and Swift responded with A Modest Proposal.” (Ralph Stevens Pendexter). Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin in 1667, and he received the
The Balanced Beowulf In J.R.R. Tolkien’s essay, “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics”, he describes the epic poem Beowulf, as a balance between ends and beginnings. He says that Beowulf establishes a contrast of rising and setting, youth and age, and first achievement and final death. All of these paradoxes can be found in several places throughout the poem. For example, the poem illustrates the rise and fall of Herot, and the difference between Beowulf, the protagonist, in his youth and in his later life.
Explore and evaluate how texts represent conflicting perspectives through the eye of the composer. In your answer refer to your core text and at least one other related text. Composers represent conflicting perspectives through their own unique experiences and values as their political and social contexts. Geoffrey Robertson's self styled memoir 'The Justice Game' written in the late 1900's heavily reflects these conflicting perspectives in the 'Trials of Oz' and 'The Romans in Britain' through the employment of emotive and persuasive language and ridicule in the form of satire to which convey Robertson's view through his eyes. Such conflicts also portrayed in Charles Waterstreet's article' It's a long fickle road to justice' which similar to Robertson's use of persuasive techniques utilizes satire to challenge and question the myopic procedures of the legal system.
“Where I Come From”, a poem written by Elizabeth Brewster, explores the differences in the lifestyles and beliefs of city and country people, with a clear personal bias towards the latter. On the other hand, “A Different History”, written by Sujata Bhatt, discusses the effect of colonization on a culture, specifically referring to the case of India. Both Elizabeth and Sujata employ poetic devices, metaphors, and structure in their use and expression of identity. Both poets use a plethora of poetic devices to convey identity. In “A Different History”, Bhatt places emphasis on the word “sin”, by repeating it almost four times within the scope of 7 lines.
'Briar Rose' by Jane Yolen explores war and persecution, story telling and memories and the past as the main concern of the text. Yolen seeks to educate readers about War and persecution in the novel 'Briar Rose' and the terrible events that occurred in Europe during the war and about the persecution and mass murder that was instigated by the Nazi rule that came with it. Storytelling is explored through the several genres of stories and forces the reader to examine the line between real and fictional stories as Briar Rose is based on the power of stories. Yolen stressed the importance of memories and the past as Yolen indicates the importance of memories. Jane Yolen's novel, 'Briar Rose' explores war and persecution as one of the main ideas of the text.
The desire for superiority and domination has plagued the twentieth century by power struggles between nations in the form of wars and large numbers of casualties. Over the centuries, poetry has endeavoured to communicate human emotions and ideas. Some present a glorified war in order to portray their love and patriotic attitude to their audience. Such a view is presented in “The Soldier” by Rupert Brooke. Quite alternatively, some poems demonstrate a more realistic representation of war such as Kenneth Slessor’s poem “Beach Burial” and the first excerpt from the film production ‘Saving Private Ryan’ which encapsulate the futility of war and the intolerable atrocities on innocent lives.
Have you ever heard about the horrific persecution in our world? The Holocaust in Germany, 1933 was a methodical bureaucratic persecution to exonerate all Jews (“The Holocaust”). The Armenian Genocide was the obliteration of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in Turkey, 1915 (“Armenian Genocide”).These events might be analogous but they also have differences. Who were the persecutors in these genocides? In the same way of the persecutors of the Holocaust and Armenian genocide were they were being oppressed to religious people and different races of people.
This shows Abigails desire to belong not only to proctor but also within the community, by taking Elizabeth’s position. Thomas Putnam seeks revenge on Francis Nurse by accusing his wife, Rebecca, of murdering Ann Putnam’s babies through supernatural means. This shows us that Thomas Putnam is accusing Rebecca nurse of murdering Ann Putnam’s babies in order to feel a sense of belonging in the community and create anarchy in the community. In Act four, Reverend Hale reports that the town is in great confusion because of the hysteria, using visual images of homeless orphans wondering the streets, abandoned cattle and rotting crops, showing that no one belongs in
Throughout the novel, the Scarlet letter bequeaths new meanings. The scarlet letter starts off as a way to symbolize adultery, then it turns to symbolize angel during Dimmesdale’s vigil, and finally it symbolizes able as Hester develops into a strong woman because of her sin. The original meaning of the scarlet letter is adultery. Hester Prynne had an affair with Reverend Dimmesdale, and her punishment because of her sin is to wear a scarlet letter “A”. Along with the meaning of adultery, the scarlet symbolizes shame.