Andrew Paterson's Distinctive Voice
Through the use of language techniques it is made obvious that everyone has distinctive voices and by exploring and analyzing different people’s voices it is easy to realize that they convey everything you need to know about a person. Undoubtedly Andrew Paterson, Kylie Mole, Martin Luther King Jr. and Earl Spencer’s texts demonstrate their distinctive voices through their beliefs and contexts, creating an underlying meaning. It is with each and every word that these characters create meaning through their distinctive voices.
It is without question that Andrew Paterson’s poetry highlights one of the most illustrious voices in Australian history. Through exploring and analyzing his work it is illuminated that he is a product of his society …show more content…
and wanted to encourage loyalty to the bush by creating a homogeneous society through the view of what mattered most to him. Above all was Paterson’s distinctive voice of someone bias towards the country, painting it in his romantic and idealistic light. Through this we see his romanticism of the bush compared to the realist view of the city, his Australian background and the patriarchal society from which he came. It is within each and every word that Paterson’s distinctive voice illustrates a time and place where the country was highly idealized and romanticized.
Banjo Patterson’s portrayal of Bush vs. City demonstrates that he has the distinctive voice of someone bias towards the country. He paints the country as alluring, fascinating and romantic, which is a perfect counterpoint to the way he characterises the city, through realism. He affirms this contrast by illustrating the bush as ‘the wondrous glory of the everlasting stars’ and compares this to ‘a stingy ray of sunlight struggling feebly’ down into an office in the city which creates superfluous imagery. This representation displays his idealization of the country which he attests he prefers to the nugatory life of the city in Clancy of the Overflow, when he states ‘I somehow rather fancy, that I’d like to change with Clancy’. This distinction between bush and city throughout all of Paterson’s poems demonstrates his distinctive voice, which encourages love and loyalty to the bush.
A voice that is distinctively Australian or “Aussie” is easily distinguished throughout Paterson’s work. We see this in his use of hyperbole’s as well as the use of romantic and superlative imagery to describe Australia, particularly in ‘Defense of the Bush’, which uses highly evocative words like ‘wondrous’ and ‘glory’ to describe the stars, which exaggerates the beauty of the Australian bush and also through his use of colloquial language such as ‘t’was’ to characterize the laid back nature of the Australian culture. These grandiloquent descriptions speak of a man who believes the Australian country is dominated by the grandeur of ‘mighty rivers’ and ‘waving summer grain’. It speaks of a man who feels it is his obligation to inform people of his idealistic and nationalist view of the bush by illustrating the view of the bush through romantic language.
Part of what makes Paterson’ voice distinctive is the underlying fact that he derived from a patriarchal society which cherished storytelling.
As a young nationalist he envisioned an Australia that was strictly Anglo-Saxon. He depicts an Australia where any available jobs went to white men, which is elucidated through his use of all male characters and the further depiction of gender specific roles in ‘A bush christening’ by stating ‘men of religion are scanty’. Also, no mention is made of people belonging to different cultures such as aboriginals in his poems suggesting Paterson believed in an autonomous society. He composed his poems in balladry form using intellectual and rhetorical language, especially in ‘In defense of the bush’ when he employs multiple rhetorical questions, such as ‘did the magpies rouse your slumbers with their carol sweet and strange?’ and ‘did you hear the silver chiming of the bellbirds on the range?’ to engage and entertain his well educated, gentry orientated audience. By exhibiting an Australian landscape and culture that surpasses that of any other, he embodies a society that only accepts those of Anglo-Saxon, catholic decent, which highlights his idealistic and nationalist views of the Australian population, religion, life and culture, glorying this element through his distinctive
voice.
The text ‘Kylie Moles diary entry’ ideally demonstrates the concept of distinctive voices. Reconnoitering her work indicates that distinctive voices are a result of both beliefs and contexts through which we are able to perceive her cyclical, over exaggerated view of life. Above all was Kylie’s professed self-importance, the idealistic vision of a narcissistic adolescent that the author envisioned. This portrayal indicates the author’s derisory interpretation of teens, along with Kylie’s egotistic nature and her middle-class suburban context that we see so strongly portrayed. It demonstrations distinctive voices exist in all texts and is made up of an author’s beliefs and contexts.
Throughout the text the author describes the distinctive voice of a young conceited teenager expressing herself in the medium of a diary entry. We see this in her use of excessive exclamation marks, hyperboles, slang and colloquial language such as ‘rolly’ and ‘wot’ to exaggerate her personal views and context. The misspelling of these words also indicates that she is uneducated and as such doesn’t care about the way in which people perceive her. The author utilizes personal pronouns and rhetorical questions such as ‘Guess what I got from mum and dad? This diary. How spac!’ which illustrates a girl who believes life is dominated by her own self-obsession and derogatory thoughts for instance, boys and makeup.
It is without question that Andrew Paterson’s poetry highlights one of the most illustrious voices in Australian history. Through exploring and analyzing his work it is illuminated that he is a product of his society …show more content…
and wanted to encourage loyalty to the bush by creating a homogeneous society through the view of what mattered most to him. Above all was Paterson’s distinctive voice of someone bias towards the country, painting it in his romantic and idealistic light. Through this we see his romanticism of the bush compared to the realist view of the city, his Australian background and the patriarchal society from which he came. It is within each and every word that Paterson’s distinctive voice illustrates a time and place where the country was highly idealized and romanticized.
Banjo Patterson’s portrayal of Bush vs. City demonstrates that he has the distinctive voice of someone bias towards the country. He paints the country as alluring, fascinating and romantic, which is a perfect counterpoint to the way he characterises the city, through realism. He affirms this contrast by illustrating the bush as ‘the wondrous glory of the everlasting stars’ and compares this to ‘a stingy ray of sunlight struggling feebly’ down into an office in the city which creates superfluous imagery. This representation displays his idealization of the country which he attests he prefers to the nugatory life of the city in Clancy of the Overflow, when he states ‘I somehow rather fancy, that I’d like to change with Clancy’. This distinction between bush and city throughout all of Paterson’s poems demonstrates his distinctive voice, which encourages love and loyalty to the bush.
A voice that is distinctively Australian or “Aussie” is easily distinguished throughout Paterson’s work. We see this in his use of hyperbole’s as well as the use of romantic and superlative imagery to describe Australia, particularly in ‘Defense of the Bush’, which uses highly evocative words like ‘wondrous’ and ‘glory’ to describe the stars, which exaggerates the beauty of the Australian bush and also through his use of colloquial language such as ‘t’was’ to characterize the laid back nature of the Australian culture. These grandiloquent descriptions speak of a man who believes the Australian country is dominated by the grandeur of ‘mighty rivers’ and ‘waving summer grain’. It speaks of a man who feels it is his obligation to inform people of his idealistic and nationalist view of the bush by illustrating the view of the bush through romantic language.
Part of what makes Paterson’ voice distinctive is the underlying fact that he derived from a patriarchal society which cherished storytelling.
As a young nationalist he envisioned an Australia that was strictly Anglo-Saxon. He depicts an Australia where any available jobs went to white men, which is elucidated through his use of all male characters and the further depiction of gender specific roles in ‘A bush christening’ by stating ‘men of religion are scanty’. Also, no mention is made of people belonging to different cultures such as aboriginals in his poems suggesting Paterson believed in an autonomous society. He composed his poems in balladry form using intellectual and rhetorical language, especially in ‘In defense of the bush’ when he employs multiple rhetorical questions, such as ‘did the magpies rouse your slumbers with their carol sweet and strange?’ and ‘did you hear the silver chiming of the bellbirds on the range?’ to engage and entertain his well educated, gentry orientated audience. By exhibiting an Australian landscape and culture that surpasses that of any other, he embodies a society that only accepts those of Anglo-Saxon, catholic decent, which highlights his idealistic and nationalist views of the Australian population, religion, life and culture, glorying this element through his distinctive
voice.
The text ‘Kylie Moles diary entry’ ideally demonstrates the concept of distinctive voices. Reconnoitering her work indicates that distinctive voices are a result of both beliefs and contexts through which we are able to perceive her cyclical, over exaggerated view of life. Above all was Kylie’s professed self-importance, the idealistic vision of a narcissistic adolescent that the author envisioned. This portrayal indicates the author’s derisory interpretation of teens, along with Kylie’s egotistic nature and her middle-class suburban context that we see so strongly portrayed. It demonstrations distinctive voices exist in all texts and is made up of an author’s beliefs and contexts.
Throughout the text the author describes the distinctive voice of a young conceited teenager expressing herself in the medium of a diary entry. We see this in her use of excessive exclamation marks, hyperboles, slang and colloquial language such as ‘rolly’ and ‘wot’ to exaggerate her personal views and context. The misspelling of these words also indicates that she is uneducated and as such doesn’t care about the way in which people perceive her. The author utilizes personal pronouns and rhetorical questions such as ‘Guess what I got from mum and dad? This diary. How spac!’ which illustrates a girl who believes life is dominated by her own self-obsession and derogatory thoughts for instance, boys and makeup.