He believes that by imitating his father’s actions on the farm will enable him to soon take over the role, although he learns how skilled the work is. In the first stanza we are introduced in first person narrative with Heaney’s use of ‘My’, this suggests that he is expressing his father as some precious possession. This clearly displays the real bond between these two characters and helps to give us an insight
Skrzynecki’s words, “gentle father kept pace only with the Joneses of his own mind’s making” as quoted from his poem ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’ exhibits, through the descriptive word ‘gentle’ and the metaphorical use of ‘only with the Joneses of his own mind’s making’, the obvious admirations of son to father as well as the childhood lesson of staying true to oneself. Thus, upholding the concept of belonging in the English curriculum as well as continuing the analysis of Skrzynecki’s poems is vital as it permits students to understand the notion of familial relationships. After all without our family, who else could we belong to? Will Hodkinson’s feature article “Marked as an enemy of the state” also demonstrates the importance of familial belonging. Baldaev’s widowed wife Valentina expresses her strong emotions when referring to Baldaev’s drawings as “she didn’t know what to do with them, but she was concerned that her family would throw them out when she died.
It is through this portrayal that the composer may come to understand his complex father, and strengthen his emotional bonds with him, after his death. ‘He would rest his leg stiffly out in front (of his beloved Sunbeam motorbike)…and return with sugar sacks over each shoulder’. The composer has used vivid imagery to highlight the physical strength of his father, travelling far distances to buy his son supplies after an accident on his motorbike, which connotes ideas of paternal protection, self-sacrifice
The speaker refers to a Sicilian tradition where a father plants an olive or fig tree to mark the birth of his first born son. Olive and fig trees are small, short trees that bear fruits while sequoias are tall, fruitless trees and so it is fitting that the speaker, to mark the death of his son instead of birth, plants a tree that is in a way the opposite of the trees planted to mark a son’s birth. Although the poem never actually states that the speaker is the father and not the mother, it is safe to conclude that it is indeed the father as it is the father who plants the tree in the Sicilian tradition. The tone of this poem changes as the poem progresses, it starts of mournful, “rain blacked the horizon”; leading into wistful, “I would have done the same, proudly laying new stock into my father’s orchard” and finally, towards the end, there is a hopeful tone, “when our family is no more … I want you to stand
Poetry Essay: Thomas Gunn Gunn has said that students of his work should read Paul Giles's article "Landscapes of Repetition" in Critical Quarterly. He stated, "I find it valuable because he reads me as I would want to be read. Gunn's personal life is very interesting. Gunn's father was a journalist and Gunn's mother was a writer and wrote about socialist ideals. In Gunn's early life his parents' divorced, Gunn then traveled with his father to different assignments and attended a number of different schools.
How has your understanding of the concept and significance of belonging become broader and deeper as a result of seeing the experiences of others in the texts you have studied this year? Genevieve Brand To me, the term belonging refers to the sense of home, and the feeling of being welcome and accepted within a group or community. Through the study of Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel, The Namesake, my understanding of the concept of belonging has been deepened and broadened due to the exploration of several different examples of belonging found throughout the text including the search for identity and the barriers that different cultures build. These concepts belonging have also been explored through an interview of Najaf Mazari and Robin Bourke entitled “The Two of Us” and the ABC documentary, A
‘The passing of time, the passing of mine’ by Natalie Isakov, and ‘A sense of Belonging’ by Sylvia Mortoza explore Belonging through concepts such as Belonging to a person, Belonging to place, and belonging throughout time. In Isakov’s text, the composer is shown to belong to a person, firstly through the inclusive language associated with the involved parties, such as “we were together”, and possessive language implemented by the author in “you were taken from me, and part of me died”; the inclusive and possessive language alludes to a sense of belonging between the two parties. The metaphor of light representing the author’s love denotes his importance in her life; and the isolation brought by the absence of light in the latter stages of the text removes the belonging that the composer once felt, instilling a sense of isolation. Similarly, in ‘A sense of belonging’, Mortoza’s is shown to belong to the Queen. The belonging in this piece is alluded to through the romanticized exaggeration of the Queen’s features, showing the authors adoration.
Belonging may result in a deep connection to place. All these aspects present in the core text, Romulus my father by Ramond Gaita, some are observed in ¬¬___________ (ORT) of the image of belonging presented the one that deserves inclusion in HSC material is the image of ______________ (TEXT 2). This image both explores the aspects of belonging and compliments of the other texts. It is in human nature to strive towards a sense of Belonging, a process that incites the creation, or deterioration of a sense of personal and cultural identification. The memoir, Romulus, My Father, by Raimond Gaita; John Guare’s play, Six Degrees of Separation; and Tim Winton’s short story, Big World, from the collection, The Turning, explore the concept that Belonging is the driving force for the human condition.
Join with me as I attempt to answer a question that has plagued HSC students since 2009. How are perceptions of belonging and alienation shaped within personal, cultural, historical and social contexts? I say belonging comes from a self-awareness of your personal identity. In Nadia Wheatley and Matt Ottley’s 1999 picture book ‘Luke’s way of looking’ and Emily Dickinson’s poems, number 83 ‘I gave myself to him’ and number 82 ‘I had been hungry all the years’ from the ‘Selected poems of Emily Dickinson’, shows how identification impacts their ability to make connections as well as the effect of barriers on the individuals identity is explored. Ones social identity is instrumental in constructing individual identity.
Belonging to this family has helped them understand what belonging means and the repetition of ‘lesson’ emphasises the point that belonging in this family where it is a bit tougher than normal, has provided them with acceptance and understanding. In comparison, the poem Feliks Skrzynecki explores very similar concepts in that Feliks deals with the fact that his relationships with his friends are enriching his identity with his background. “Talking, they reminisced about farms where paddocks flowered with corn and wheat.” The imagery that is portrayed gives the responder the knowledge of what his life has previously been like and the place and people that he feels he belongs with. Feliks relationships with his friends and hometown build up a sense of belonging in where he feels accepted and understood. Relationships will always build a sense of belonging;