This essay will show depths of comparison and contrast of two of Jack Davis poem, First Born and 150 Years, and how each of the poems are linked to the concept of passion. First Born focuses more on the despair over death of the Aboriginal race and the displacement from the land whilst 150 years imposes the idea of the exclusion from state ceremonies and mainstream political life and culture. In comparison, both of the poems has revealed the themes of injustice experienced by Indigenous Australians, and the neglect of Aboriginal people. Jack Davis portrays different types of passion through each of the poems which include his use of language techniques by conveying his passionate relationship to his culture and indigenous identity. Throughout the poem First Born, the poet conveys the idea of anger and frustration about the despair over the death of the Aboriginal race.
Poe wanted the readers to feel the terror and horror that the narrator felt. The way he describes the torture chamber gives off a vivid description of what the narrator viewed, “I now observed- with what horror it is needless to say-that its nether extremity was formed of a crescent of glittering steel, about a foot in length from horn to horn; the horns upward, and the under edge evidently as keen as that of a razor…appended to a weighty rod of brass…” Thus, helping the reader feel as they too are in the torture chamber. The sensory images in Poe’s poem, “The Lake”, associate with ones perception of solitude. The poem emphasizes the poisonous wave and the fitting grave to be compared with the lake and death. Poe gives the description of the towering pine trees over the lake to exude the terror and delight in the speaker.
This is also evident in Harry Wood, in which we see the theme of death and survival. However, in Harry Wood, and Martin and the Hand Grenade, the recurring theme is the brutality of man, compared to the cruelty of nature in the other two poems. To reinforce the cruelty of man, John Foulcher employs a number of stylistic features in Martin and the Hand Grenade. Foulcher’s use of the adjectival pre-modifier, “bleak skill,”
In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth guilt strongly affects Macbeth and Lady Macbeth as it is shown through the emotions, the murder and the suicide. The changes of Macbeth’s emotions demonstrates how guilt develop within him. Through Macbeth aggressiveness he demonstrates the cause of his guilt. Macbeth, no longer acts like his past self, and violently kills Duncan. This betrayal that he demonstrates,
Joe Vitale Mrs. Reganato English III – Academic 9 April 2014 Effects of Guilt Guilt, by definition, is an emotion that occurs when a person believes that they have violated a moral standard. It is the single driving force that can push someone off the edge thus into a spiraling downfall of tragedies. Through numerous centuries of literature, guilt has been one of the key themes repeatedly stressed. In this way, the morals of mankind are accentuated, explored and disturbed. In The Tragedy of Macbeth, guilt plays an immense role in the lives of Macbeth and his Queen; guilt is the single attribute that pushes them to the edge and tests their sanity.
Wendy Perez Analysis At the beginning of the opening chapters, Cooper introduces the setting between the brutal and bloody war of the French and Indian War. There are some parts in the novel where Cooper used historical facts to narrate the actual, lived events in this colonial history of the United States. Although there are roots in his narrative to be from his own imaginary war, Cooper wanted to emphasize the tensions between mankind and the land, natives and the colonists, and nature and culture. The characters in the novel are illustrated in various ways that national cultures interact. They even materialize some of the extended stereotypes held during the colonization of America and racial tensions arise throughout the chapters.
The two texts offer readers and viewers different insights into the nature of war. Both texts use very graphic imagery which is disturbing and often macabre to illustrate the confronting reality of war. Annaud utilises visual imagery and music to help create an effectively realistic mise-en-scene throughout the film. Annaud affirms the importance of hope and love whilst demonstrating the brutal political nature of war. In “Fly Away Peter” Malouf constructs characters to show how war affects people.
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.
Edward’s diction and tone gives his listeners and readers an eerie feeling, a fear for sin, and an awakening for the wrath of God about to come. On the other hand, there is Equiano, who persuades the horrors of slavery in attempt to abolish the slave trade. He appeals to our senses with phrases such as “galling of the chains”, “shrieks of the women” and “groans of the dying” (73), giving his audience a feeling of sympathy. With these statements he makes people question the morality of the situation, in order to get his point across, that slavery brutalizes everyone; the slaves, their overseers, plantation wives, and the whole of
Nowhere in the novel is there a happy thought of war, it is constantly being shown as a destructive route to go. This portrayal of war in a negative light is highlighted by including the words slaughterhouse in the tittle. The slaughterhouse is the location where animals are slaughtered, the parallel between this and the tittle is that the book promotes the idea that war is an unnecessary route and only leads to the slaughter of humans. The tittle of the novel also reflects the major motif of Death. Death is embedded in every chapter and is used to show the destructiveness of a war.