Distinctively Visual Images
English Speech
In what ways do composers transport us to another time and place through distinctively visual images?
The way in which we shape our meaning and perception of a text is manipulated by the distinctively visual images and techniques used by a composer to engage us in the situation and thus transport us to a particular time and place. Henry Lawson makes this obvious in the text, The Loaded Dog through creating relatable, distinctively visual images of mateship and humour to help us understand the need for distractions to endure the harsh Australian outback. Lawson uses more severe images in The Drovers Wife to paint a picture of the struggle to survive in the isolated Australian Bush. Conversely, Picasso’s Guernica parades a raw image of the destructiveness and terror of the Spanish civil war, enhancing our current knowledge by providing insight into the repercussions of warfare. Through the use of distinctively visual, Lawson and Picasso effectively engage the audience to transport them to the Australian bush in the late 1800s and the Spanish civil war, influencing the meaning and perception created by the reader in relation to each time and place.
Distinctively visual is created by composers utilising various language devices in order to transport the audience into another time and place by allowing the reader to immerse themselves into the stories to understand the true feelings and emotions of the characters. In The Loaded Dog Lawson engages the audience by employing humour by juxtaposing the feelings of Tommy the Dog and the three bush folk in the face of adversity. This is revealed through the personification of Tommy “smiling his broadest, longest and reddest smile of amiability” revealing the contrast between the fear felt by the three men whilst Tommy is unaware of the imminent danger. Furthermore, Lawson uses sardonic humour by describing Tommy with a sarcastic look as if he was going to precariously drop the cartridge, an action
In what ways do composers transport us to another time and place through distinctively visual images?
The way in which we shape our meaning and perception of a text is manipulated by the distinctively visual images and techniques used by a composer to engage us in the situation and thus transport us to a particular time and place. Henry Lawson makes this obvious in the text, The Loaded Dog through creating relatable, distinctively visual images of mateship and humour to help us understand the need for distractions to endure the harsh Australian outback. Lawson uses more severe images in The Drovers Wife to paint a picture of the struggle to survive in the isolated Australian Bush. Conversely, Picasso’s Guernica parades a raw image of the destructiveness and terror of the Spanish civil war, enhancing our current knowledge by providing insight into the repercussions of warfare. Through the use of distinctively visual, Lawson and Picasso effectively engage the audience to transport them to the Australian bush in the late 1800s and the Spanish civil war, influencing the meaning and perception created by the reader in relation to each time and place.
Distinctively visual is created by composers utilising various language devices in order to transport the audience into another time and place by allowing the reader to immerse themselves into the stories to understand the true feelings and emotions of the characters. In The Loaded Dog Lawson engages the audience by employing humour by juxtaposing the feelings of Tommy the Dog and the three bush folk in the face of adversity. This is revealed through the personification of Tommy “smiling his broadest, longest and reddest smile of amiability” revealing the contrast between the fear felt by the three men whilst Tommy is unaware of the imminent danger. Furthermore, Lawson uses sardonic humour by describing Tommy with a sarcastic look as if he was going to precariously drop the cartridge, an action