Analysis Of St Patricks Skrzynecki's Immigrant Chronicle '
The human quest to belong is characterised by both triumph and failure.
Belonging involves triumphing over failure to belong. This is seen in Peter Skrzynecki’s anthology Immigrant Chronicle. The poem St Patricks College explores the persona’s struggle to overcome alienation in his search for belonging. The poem Feliks Skrzynecki explores the persona witnessing his fathers triumph to belong. The picture book The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan explores the things initial failure to belong, which is then overcome.
St Patricks College explores the personas failure to belong into the school society. The imagery “our lady watched/ with outstretched arms” gives the persona hope that he will belong in this school. This gives an early sense of triumph in his quest to belong. This is then inverted when the statues face is seen to be “overshadowed by clouds”. This use of pathetic fallacy gives early warning that the school will not be a place where he belongs, but a place were he will fail to belong and become out casted. The personification heightens this feeling of exclusion by having a personal bond created between the two, which is then broken by the clouds. This gives a further feeling of isolation from the school.
The persona then tells of his exclusion from the school when he reminisces …show more content…
The father is seen to have “kept up only with the Joneses/ of his own minds making”, the alliteration of “minds making” helps add emphasis to he line. This reinforces the feeling of his belonging in is own mind due to the added emphasis now placed on “mind”. The quote also utilises the cliché of “keeping up with the Joneses” as a metaphor for people conforming to societies expectations in a search for belonging. Feliks however, chooses to belong only within his own mind, and not conform to society. This shows how he has a sense of belonging within his own
Belonging involves triumphing over failure to belong. This is seen in Peter Skrzynecki’s anthology Immigrant Chronicle. The poem St Patricks College explores the persona’s struggle to overcome alienation in his search for belonging. The poem Feliks Skrzynecki explores the persona witnessing his fathers triumph to belong. The picture book The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan explores the things initial failure to belong, which is then overcome.
St Patricks College explores the personas failure to belong into the school society. The imagery “our lady watched/ with outstretched arms” gives the persona hope that he will belong in this school. This gives an early sense of triumph in his quest to belong. This is then inverted when the statues face is seen to be “overshadowed by clouds”. This use of pathetic fallacy gives early warning that the school will not be a place where he belongs, but a place were he will fail to belong and become out casted. The personification heightens this feeling of exclusion by having a personal bond created between the two, which is then broken by the clouds. This gives a further feeling of isolation from the school.
The persona then tells of his exclusion from the school when he reminisces …show more content…
The father is seen to have “kept up only with the Joneses/ of his own minds making”, the alliteration of “minds making” helps add emphasis to he line. This reinforces the feeling of his belonging in is own mind due to the added emphasis now placed on “mind”. The quote also utilises the cliché of “keeping up with the Joneses” as a metaphor for people conforming to societies expectations in a search for belonging. Feliks however, chooses to belong only within his own mind, and not conform to society. This shows how he has a sense of belonging within his own