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.
Readers familiar with Tim Winton's 2002 Booker-shortlisted novel, Dirt Music, will immediately recognise the setting of this remarkable collection of interlinked short stories. This is Winton's home territory - small-town Western Australia, simmering in the stink of rotting kelp or shrouded in drizzle driven across beaches "the colour of dirty tin". Here, in the shadow of the meatworks, the cannery and a depleted fishing industry, lives dribble away or are brought to premature conclusions. One of the effects of Winton's tight geographical focus is a claustrophobic sense of enclosure. In "Big World", the unnamed narrator and his lumbering friend, Biggie, dream of escaping from the town and their dead-end jobs in a garishly customised Holden
He revisits places over and over to discover changing light and the impact from the weather. Jackson is a keen environmentalist and he cares about the landscape. If you inspect some of his paintings closely, mainly his river paintings, you can see that he has used found objects that we would class as litter, such as packaging. The words ‘house’, ‘plastic’, ‘warning’, ‘fish’ and ‘newt’ are clearly on display and are intended for a message to others about how we are not looking after the environment as we should. If you look
Elena Benoit ENB 111 3/31/15 Harsh and awful events permanently leave a mark on our memory. Specially, when these events are directly linked to an individual, the memory reproduces every second of what happened. It must certainly be a life of continuous relief, depression, and guilt at having survived the risks of combat. In Yusef Komunyakaa's poem, "Facing It", the poet uses imagery to convey the tone, which will stimulate many different emotions from somberness to excitement and fear. Imagery is clearly evident from the beginning lines “My black face fades, hiding inside the black granite” (1-2).
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
Exhibited all over Australia and in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, New York and London. Storrier’s paintings are usually described as mysterious, disturbing landscapes that capture the gloomy vastness of the Australian outbackTim Storrier always considered himself a studio artist. This has a lot to do with his need for privacy and isolation in his work. He has made numerous journeys into remote areas of Australia and often uses a camera as a means of recording particular incidents. While he does occasionally make drawings and small watercolours out of doors, his best work is usually completed in the studio.
Throughout the book, Paul reflected the beautiful nature to the hard, tough war. “The brown earth, the torn, blasted earth, with a greasy shine under the sun’s rays; the earth is the background of this restless, gloomy world of automatons, our gasping is the scratching of a quill, our lips are dry, our heads are debauched with stupor-thus
We continue the tradition. In the yard outside is a towering manure pile, sodden with rich plant-nourishing, steaming juices which we smell even in our sleep. Each man has a pile of ancient grey straw on which he makes his bed. It is so vermin-infested that if one stands and listens when it is quiet he can hear the scraping and scurrying of the pests underneath. It is late afternoon; we are through with the day's fatigues and are sitting about digging mud off our boots, shining brass buttons, cleaning and oiling our rifles, and killing lice in between times.
The writer provides vivid details and conveys emotions when sketching the characters (e.g. “Arliss’ tears made dark splotches in the dust that covered them”) or the dangers (e.g. the wild hogs “roaring and popping their teeth, cutting high and fast with gleaming white tushes that they keep whetted to the sharpness of knife points”). Such descriptive writing draws me into Travis’ world. The third reason for choosing this book is its many twists and turns.
Discuss how one or more writers has used language imaginatively or experimentally to present a world view. (RE-DO) Often writers have the ability to paint an image with their use of language and bring to life a new story. This is true in Gwen Harwood’s lyrical narrative “Hospital Evening” , a poem that revolves around the fictional character Krote and his new life in Australia. Krote is woken up by the sweltering heat of Australia, finding himself in a hospital with hostile nurses and intolerable food. Gwen Harwood contrasts Australia with Germany through Krote’s view and opinion.