With the short sharp sounds, it reflects the poets attitude and feeling towards the poem and Melbourne. For example Komninos refers to Australian knowledge and landmarks when he said,“past the big ram, the dog on the ticker box," they’re both Australian landmarks, by doing this he alludes to the knowledge of those icons that define those country towns. The purpose of this poem is all about self expression and letting Komninos explain his thoughts and feelings on when he returns to Melbourne. He creates a mocking tone throughout, almost as if he isn’t pleased with how Melbourne is now. His mid-aged voice mixed with a bit of embarrassment surely exemplifies his disgust of Melbourne and how much he doesn’t like the changes that have been made there.
On the other hand, Brown uses words and phrases such as "everything had turned bad," "gone," "replaced by an endless desolation," "roamed restlessly," and "return to their reservations to keep from starving." Brown's use of words depict a picture of a land that destroyed. You can also imply that he is resentful towards the white hunters who caused for the land to be desolate. There appears to be no hope in the land and the words create a sense of bitterness. His forlorn diction allows the reader to envision a land that is dead and no more.
In this poem ‘The Lost Heritage’ by Heather Buck, the poet is seemingly concerned about forgotten past; how man is now alienated from nature when at one point, man and nature shared a very close and warm relationship. The poet expresses her views that we are so engrossed and lost in our present lives, that we have forgotten the legacies of the past. Our lives are ‘indelibly printed by one another’. Buck claims that our children today do not have a role; they are merely objectified as something sitting on the floor surrounded by a myriad of towering adults. They are deprived of learning the ‘intricate’ and colourful patterns that have shaped their lives, and thus, have lost their heritage.
The hands of the Aboriginal man also symbolise the loss of identity and the issue of dispossession. The hands in the image are beginning to lose their colour which is spreading up his body and he slowly becoming see-through. This highlights three pungent facts, firstly the assimilation into white society, this is also seen through the two heads on the bed which the man must choose from, secondly, the issue of dispossession, the man is no longer linked with the land and therefore his spirituality and finally the loss of colour in the hands also symbolises the loss of identity, not only for the man in the image but for all Aboriginal
2) Save your work on this template, then submit as an attachment to the appropriate drop box. “Americans and the Land” 1) In the introduction, Steinbeck shows his views on the early settlers and their attitudes regarding the virgin land. Consider his word choice. List at least three words that demonstrate his contempt for this behavior. “I have often wondered at the savagery and thoughtlessness with which our early settlers approached this rich continent.”In this sentence alone lets the readers know how he felt towards the early settlers that they were inconsiderate, selfish, unruly group of people that didn’t really know better in a sense.
Also the use of the word ‘to’ imply that the passage is not a mere informative work on Africa, but a dedication to the country. Alagiah starts to create emotion in the first line ‘I saw a thousand hungry,lean,scared and betrayed faces’ this suggests suffering, a triad is used for effect, they seem forgotten by the rest of the world. This should make the reader feel sympathy. Also this shows how bigger scale this is, the people are forgotten by the whole world not just one country. This sense of abandonment carries on into lines 6-7 ‘In my notebook I had jotted down instructions on how to get there.’ this evokes pathos through the demonstration of how forgotten these people are, and also how isolated they are.
Orwell should be sympathized with With the British colonial domination in Burma smashing, natives had actually gotten rid of the British oppression to a great extent. Though natives could see the dawn of freedom, there were a group of people still struggling shattered lives—— the ruling sahib. Orwell is one example and deserves sympathy because of his contradictory political standpoint and the ironic fact of being controlled by the natives. Orwell is a wretch as his real political stand contradicts his occupation as a dominating policeman. According the first two paragraphs of the essay, Orwell expresses how bitterly he hates imperialism and feels guilty since he can “see the dirty work of Empire at close quarters” such as the evil oppression against natives, and he is “all for the Burmese and all against their oppressors”.
“The Runaways” illustrates how despite colonization another tribe has not forgotten its real, native character. They might act like they are obligated to but deep in their minds they have remained the same old people. They have not changed truly. They stick together in hard moments like that one. The tragic novel This Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe illustrates the colonization of an African tribe by foreign missionaries which leads to the collapse of the community because people are no longer united.
This continues as its clear now that we need the comfort, direction and fervor of others in order to help us grow and evolve. Relationships have the power to transform us for the better, and cement our personality and temperament in the ground. Australian poet, Bruce Dawe, writes about the nature of relationships and how they can influence and transform us, and very much so define who we are. In his poem “With You Not By Me”, Dawe paints a portrait of life after the passing of his wife. He professes how “the wind is like a spinster twitches” when “you are not by me”, underlining how vital our relationships are, especially in relation to the shaping of our identity, where we are “diffident” without the love and support of another.
This completes his search for identity in the village. Makhaya’s final source of oppression is removed when Matenge dies and this allows him to live the rest of his life in ease. The novel also deals with deals with the problem of tribalism. Head uses the character of Makhaya to show how the system of tribalism develops inequalities and creates a lack of knowledge. For Makhaya this ignorance created by tribalism is a constant source of irritation for him.