The 3 poems Eat, Back to Melbourne and Hillston Welcome all represent a different time in Komninos’ life. In each poem, Komninos uses different language features and distinctive voices to create a different view for each poem. The poems all have their own distinctive voices as well. In Back to Melbourne the voice is a mid aged Aussie bloke voice, Eat is a mid-teen , almost sarcastically angry voice and tone and Hillston Welcome is a straight out Bogan voice. In the poem, Back to Melbourne, Komninos uses assonance throughout to keep the poem flowing.
Personal life capabilities helps one to overcome the obstacle of loss by facing similar situations and getting used to a new environment. In fact, losing a loved one helps an individual to prepare to face similar situations in the future. For example, Addy loses so many people throughout the novel that she eventually gets used to it. To handle the death of her first baby, Addy decides to leave Detroit and find another home: "The wind shook the windowpanes and the house on Chestnut Street groaned at the loss of yet another soul. Addy was still weak from the efforts of her labour, and still sore and bleeding, but she knew she had to leave and she had to leave today" (Lansens 271).
I believe this song is about her reactions to her relationships and over the course of this song she tries too hard to match her partner’s aspirations. By doing so she forgets who she really is and, in the process it emotionally traumatises her, leaving her with a symbolic “scar”. “A triangle trying to squeeze through a circle/He tried to cut me so I'd fit” is a metaphor located in the hook of the song. The triangle represents Missy and the circle represents her partner’s expectations for her. In this case she is trying to fit into what her partner wants her to be, but the only way she could do that is to change, or ‘cut’ away at who she really is.
The core of our dynamic identity is represented through multiple voices and perspectives. The varying Australian identities explore the diversity of citizen’s ever-changing multiculturalism, the effect of national events and the voices of different eras and generations. Current-day Australian identity is a combination of all citizen’s life experiences and major events occurring through the different eras. Bruce Dawes poetry effectively represents the varying perspectives of societies view of our diverse culture, recognising the matters of social, political and cultural influences within our nation. Dawes poems “Drifters”, “Flag of the Future” and “Homecoming” express the historical and cultural influences on Australian identity through nationalism, symbolism and emotional impact and portray different perspectives of Australian life.
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The way she interacts with her friends and husband shows us she is suffering from something that had already been a part of her life, revealing to us that her own emotional journey had already started. The audience gradually notices Coral’s strange behaviour by her actions with the stage direction “Coral doesn’t respond” indicating her isolation from society. What also brings Coral’s emotionally unstable journey to light is by her conversation with
In the poem the writer is also in conflict with herself as she has left her motherland Guyana to move to England. At first the poet dreaded England but as soon as there was news of a Hurricane she began to feel much at home as hurricanes happen often in the southern equator. The writer shows her relationship with the hurricane by referring to it as her ‘sweeping a back home cousin’. At the end of the poem the writer resolves her problem which is her conflict with herself as she misses her homeland ‘Come to let me know that the earth is the earth’. The similarities of the poems are that they both involve the same situation which is conflict with another culture.
However, by the end of the novel she is making an effort to take control over her emotions: she sees a doctor and receives medication for her depression, and attempts to be patient in dealing with Christopher. Similarly, Christopher’s father vows to regain Christopher’s trust by always being truthful, and Christopher himself, by making the journey to London, shows that he is able to overcome some aspect of his condition. Each of these characters tries to take control of their ‘behavioural problems’ in order to rebuild relationships that are important to them. Judy Boone, Christopher’s mother believes she is incapable of change when she writes this in the second letter that Christopher discovers. She is trying to explain to her son some months after leaving her husband and Christopher that she is not a very good mother.
In both poems ‘Where I Come From by Elizabeth Brewster’ and ‘Summer Farm by Norman MacCaig’, the author makes a dominant connection between the natural world and mankind by addressing the importance of digging down to your roots, finding your own identity through it and also focusing on how nature alters to fit with your emotional state. In ‘Where I Come From by Elizabeth Brewster’, it concentrates on idea that wherever you come from, you carry a sense of that place in your mind. By trying to convey this message and create the effect of a nostalgic poem, the author had used many techniques such as sibilance, similes, alliteration and metaphors. On the other hand, in ‘Summer Farm by Norman MacCaig’, the author’s central idea is to get across the message that the natural world is created according to the emotions of man. The author tries to put across his thoughts through using techniques such as juxtaposition, introspective perception, recursion, rhyme, assonance and alliteration.
I grow older” (Pound, line 18; 23-25). The Merchant’s Wife describes nature in a sad tone despite her seemingly happy love in her marriage. Their relationship is described that their marriage was not a matter of personal choice, and that the husband reluctantly went away on a long journey. Nevertheless she worries about her husband’s journey, “You went into Ku-to-yen, by the river of swirling eddies” (Pound, line 16). At the same way she confirms her anguish “Please let me know beforehand/And I will come out to meet you/ As far as Cho-Fu-Sa” (Pound, lines 27-29).