Continuum - Allen Curnow Continuum Allen Curnow Summary: The author writes about his inability to sleep due to his inability to come up with material to write about (most likely a poem‚ could be another form of text). He therefore gets up in the dead of night when everyone is asleep and experiences a surreal world as his reality and dreams blend together in one beautiful work of poetry. It is ironic however‚ that when he finds nothing to write about‚ he writes about his inability to write.
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“Continuum” is a poem written by New Zealander Allen Curnow in which he illustrates his intended theme ambiguously‚ yet sincerely. The structure‚ along with the tone and overall writing quality of the poem‚ introduces to the reader a discrepancy of uncertainty and emotions that reveals the author’s principle motif‚ but not immediately the true profundity behind this work of art. Curnow gives off to a vague start;
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TIME Allen Curnow Allen Curnow is New Zealand’s most important poet. He believed in living literature. He once said‚ "You can’t write literature‚ you can’t paint art". First published in 1977‚ ‘Time’ reflects nature and life in New Zealand. Some of his poetry tried to explore ‘the private and unanswerable.’ This is one such poem.. Here "Time" speaks for itself. Thus the poem is time’s autobiography. The first four stanzas contain random images of time‚ and time is everywhere
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Country School - Allen Curnow By Abdulla Al-Muhannadi In this poem ‘Country School’‚ Curnow basks in reminiscence of his old school where he drifts away in recalling his childhood. As this poem reflects childhood reminiscence‚ the narrator seems to realise that things aren’t as dull and bad as they seemed before‚ along with the portrayal of the overall issue of ageing. However‚ the tone of the narrator seems to sway between enthusiastic and apathetic as there are many times when the tones seem
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Exploring how Allen Curnow portrays the search for inspiration in Continuum In the poem ‘Continuum’ by Allen Curnow‚ he tells us about his lack of inspiration. The theme of the poem revolves around poetic inspiration‚ and how he is unable to get inspiration. Allen Curnow uses a variety of stylistic devices to portray this. The title‚ “Continuum”‚ shows us that the problem Allen Curnow talks about‚ his lack of inspiration‚ is never ending and is continuing all the time‚ i.e.‚ it is continuous.
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the heyday of New Zealand’s cultural nationalism around mid-century‚” states Evan “is its fetishisation of the artist-as- victim” (Evans n. pag.). This fetishisation is believed to precipitate in poetic masochism‚ where Evans gives the example of Allen Curnow’s “self-flagellating verse”‚ which I hold to be an incorrect description of the selected poem The Skeleton of the Great Moa in the Canterbury Museum‚ Christchurch. The definition of masochism‚ as “fundamentally the desire for the harm to self”
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Continuum The moon rolls over the roof and falls behind my house‚ and the moon does neither of these things‚ I am talking about myself. It’s not possible to get off to sleep or the subject or the planet‚ nor to think thoughts. Better barefoot it out the front. door and lean from the porch across the privets and the palms into the washed-out creation‚ a dark place with two particular bright clouds dusted (query) by the moon‚ one’s mine the other’s an adversary‚ which may depend on the
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How does Allen Curnow convey his struggles with the writing process? As a journalist and a poet Allen Curnow might sometime suffers from lack of interests‚ inspirations and creations towards his job and project and this struggles are vividly convey in the poem “Continuum”. He might have struggles in finding new ideas and muse for his writing process. The poem “Continuum” might be an allegory for the process of him writing the poem and the continuity of poetic inspiration. The poem might be implying
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Time by Allen Curnow is a truly inspiring poem and it‚ lucratively‚ has a number of remarkable impacts on me. To begin with‚ the poem tells us that time is made up of little things such as “rust on railway lines” and “the magpie’s screech”. To me‚ the little things are like pieces of gold mixed in with sand. Unless we look closely‚ we don’t even notice the gold in its infinite worth. I feel that this poem is telling us to slow down and look at the sand so that we can learn to spot and value the
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MAIN THEMES/ IDEAS: Sleep/ Insomnia: The poem takes place at nighttime (“moon”) and it starts and ends with the author going or try to sleep (“It’s no possible to get off to sleep”‚ “paces me back to bed‚ stealthily in step”). The insomnia of the author leads to a wondering of thoughts in the moonlight. The proximity of sleep in the poem makes this wondering of thoughts more believable. This time of night when thoughts are blurry and it is easy to slip into the unknown and the imaginary (“bright
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