Poem 1 /Text: ________We drove to auburn________________________________________________ Author/composer: Fiona Wright ____________________________
Ideas
About Journeys
Expectations/
Obstacles/
Challenges
of the journey
Textual features
Textual Evidence
Evaluate the effect on the responder
Impact of the journey: note shifts in attitudes and values of the traveller
Assumptions about the journey
Synthesis:
compare or contrast to other prescribed and own text/s
Physical + inner journey
Not to the expectation of ‘Kirribilli”
Truncated sentences
Incomplete sentences
Sentence Fragment
Repetition
Conjunction ( bringing sentences together- from previous line)
“Auburn. We drove to Auburn.” …,….
“id googled Moroccan grocers, there wasn’t anything, so I figured Turkish would do.”
“I didn’t know it was so economically challenged.”
“So much cheaper than over here.”
“He just said biscuit.”
“And I’m intolerant of tree nuts, anyways.”
“no proper signs”
“A long way from Kirribilli”
“Although..”
“and sweet.”
“And im tolerant..”
Text Insinuates personas is a ‘she’ – “off the shoulder” (women clothes)
Slipping in fine detail to reveal to reader their thoughts and shock of where they are
Expecting them to have gourmet type shops to buy/ eat
Realisation of the economic level that the suburb is experiencing
Not a proper sentence
Immediate effect of idea conveyed
constant reminder to reader of where she is - disbelief she is in Auburn impersonal affect
Connects the unfinished sentences from previous line
Persona learns that there is not always everything you want and not everything in the community is of high standard in comparison to ‘Kirribilli’
“There was a Torture Rehabilitation Clinic right next to the delicatessen.”
after though/ only now realises what is really surrounding