Firstly, Peter Skrzynecki’s poem ’10 Mary Street’ represents the need to belong to a place through the use of several key language techniques and devices. The main language techniques deal with the key theme brought up in the poem about how living at the home was like clockwork and the fact that Skrzynecki’s mother and father were always following some sort of routine with their lives. One such example of this routine is seen in the line ‘For nineteen years we departed…like a well-oiled lock’. The use of simile in the phrase ‘like a well-oiled lock’ indicates the positive image of the Skrzynecki household going through the sense of routine. The nineteen years also adds depth to this interpretation and gives the sense that the place that Skrzynecki belonged to was important to him, both as a child and as an adult. Another key line that is similar to this theme of a routine is seen later in the poem, ‘Back at 5.pm from the polite hum-drum of washing clothes and laying sewerage pipes’. As can be seen from the
Firstly, Peter Skrzynecki’s poem ’10 Mary Street’ represents the need to belong to a place through the use of several key language techniques and devices. The main language techniques deal with the key theme brought up in the poem about how living at the home was like clockwork and the fact that Skrzynecki’s mother and father were always following some sort of routine with their lives. One such example of this routine is seen in the line ‘For nineteen years we departed…like a well-oiled lock’. The use of simile in the phrase ‘like a well-oiled lock’ indicates the positive image of the Skrzynecki household going through the sense of routine. The nineteen years also adds depth to this interpretation and gives the sense that the place that Skrzynecki belonged to was important to him, both as a child and as an adult. Another key line that is similar to this theme of a routine is seen later in the poem, ‘Back at 5.pm from the polite hum-drum of washing clothes and laying sewerage pipes’. As can be seen from the