Distinctively visual.... Distinctively visual uses the universality of visual techniques to make connections between the text and the audience. This then provokes the audience into reflecting upon the deeper meaning of the text. This allows Henry Lawson to communicate with his audience through the use of powerful images. Henry Lawson’s purpose in composing his short stories is to portray the hardships endured by his characters in overcoming life in the Australian bush. The audience is able to make connections with the text through the use of visual techniques which open the reader to the composers’ point of view.
PARRA 2- homecoming In the Australian poem ‘Homecoming’ the author, Dawe uses vivid visual and aural poetic techniques to construct his ongoing attitudes of the war. The universal theme of moral outrage at the dehumanising aspects of the war can be seen by the repetition of particular words in the poem such as ‘them’ and ‘they’re’. Dawe chooses words which lack individuality ‘bagging’, ‘tagging’, ‘green plastic bag’ and categorises the dead soldiers into similar groups ‘curly heads’. This is done to provide a further insight into the journey by chronicling the repatriation of the Australian soldiers. Therefore journeys do not always involve an
“Bypass: The Story of a Road”, written by Michal McGirr has many reoccurring elements within the larger story that is being told, an example of one of these reoccurring tales is the one of McGirr’s book, Anna Karenina, he constantly writes about his predicaments with this book and how he attempts to get rid of it on numerous occasions, failing each time, this brings an aspect of humour into the novel. Another humorous motif that appears throughout this novel is the running joke of Australian culture to always label something as either the largest or the oldest of something, for example hotels, McGirr continuously points out hotels that claim they are the oldest in a way. One of the more recognised motifs in the novel is that of, Anna Karenina, this is the book McGirr decides to take along with him on the trip, he soon realises it was a big mistake as he can’t get into the book therefore tries to part with it on multiple occasions, but it always finds its way back to him somehow. “Two days later, I was browsing in a book exchange in Townsville, further south. There I laid my hand on the very copy of Anna Karenina I had entrusted to the German traveller” Through this section out of the novel we can see the humorous side behind the motif of this book he travels with.
“Beneath Clouds” By Ivan Sen displays an accurate consciousness of Australia’s attitudes towards our culture and our history through direct and effective cinematic techniques and understated story telling. Sen utilizes techniques such as powerful imagery, sound and camera shots combined with a minimalist script to depict an emotionally loaded film. Not only exposing the soul of Australia, but more importantly his own. Sen has created an unusual road-movie encapsulating the natural beauty of Australian landscape. Sen allows you to venture onto a journey re-discovering the magnificence of Australia’s colonised land by displaying rich images depicting the importance of one acknowledging their heritage and in turn acknowledging their ‘self’.
“he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended, and at night the wond’rous glory of the everlasting stars.” So what has caused this decline in remote area population? Many stereotypes and preconceived ideas of the bush have definitely played a major role. But I think the most important thing for Australians to realise, is Rocking carvings by the Adnyamathanha tribe at Flinders Ranges that the outback has not died. Flinders Ranges is an excellent example of one of the many communities that eat, breathe and sleep Australian culture. Flinders Ranges is a place that reminds us of our original inhabitants, whilst impressing visitors with break taking scenery.
Life is made up of times of sadness and times of gladness. Compare Dawe’s poems and One Day of the Year when considering this. Life is a journey comprised of both wonderful and troubled experiences. Set in the 1960s, Seymour’s play “The One Day of the Year” (“Day”), makes a commentary on the nature of relationships, similar to that of Bruce Dawe’s poem “Enter without so much as knocking” (“Enter”). The theme of conflict is prevalent in these two texts, as well as another one of Dawe’s poem “Victorian Hangman tells his love” (“Hangman”).
The first issue he looks at is poetry’s marginality in Australian society. I think the best way that he expressed this was when he wrote ‘Marginality, as I have been suggesting, may be fundamental in our culture to the notion of poetry’ (McCooey 2005, pg. 5). He adapts quotes from published papers to support his opinions; always-using articles from well know sources like ‘The Australian’ and ‘The Sunday Age’. I feel by using these sources people feel more trusting and secure to side with something that seems more familiar too them.
Wiesel wrote about how horrible it seemed to lose one’s innocence. He did not realize that he had lost some of his own as well. Like Wiesel, many other victims still feel troubled by the painful memories that follow them. Roman, one of the countless victims of the Nazis, wrote a short yet perceptive poem about her lingering reflections; the powerful calamities caught the reader by surprise. Through Wiesel and Roman’s stories about their loss of innocence and haunting memories, we learned that the cruel and obscene methods used by the Nazis and SS Officers caused the vicious afterthoughts of those who survived the horrifying experiences that no human should endure.
An example of repetition is in the 4th Stanza of the Poem. “So i ate and i ate and i ate”. Rhyme is used in the 7th Stanza. “And the next time he saw me he wasn't too pleased” and “instead of losing weight i actually increased.” In the Book Review ‘The happiest Refugee’, by Rama Gaind, the life of refugees is shown in a positive connotation and from a different point of view.The boat journey is described as terrifying and life threatening. This is part of the Australian identity because many refugees suffer the problem Anh Do suffered while coming to Australia on a boat.
First the sun is mocked, and then a wide social spectrum is satirized. The speaker next satirizes “hours, days, [and] months,” which he lambastes as being the mere “rags of time” (10), but then he soon returns to satirizing the sun (11-18). He subsequently mocks “Princes” (23), honor (24), and “wealth” (24) before returning once more to satire of the sun (25-30).This poem, in other words, is a tour de force of satire, presenting an extremely self-confident speaker. Is it possible, however, that Donne himself is mocking the very speaker he presents? Is it possible that the speaker is a bit too cocky, a bit too self-centered, a bit too complacent and self-involved?