Composers create distinctively visual images to draw aspects that they are presenting in their texts. This helps the reader to understand and visualise the characters responses to significant aspects of life. The Author Henry Lawson uses these distinctive images in his short stories ‘The Drovers Wife’ and ‘The Loaded Dog’ to help portray the harsh realities of living in the Australian bush. These realities create significant experiences for the individuals in his stories as they are faced with hardships
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she needs of it‚ and takes the rest in return for other provisions”. We are given a highly visual glimpse of an unrelenting monotonous and isolating setting. This harsh‚ physical backdrop becomes an important narrative element in the characterisation of the mother. The technique of repetition adds emphasis and enhances the visual image. The expression ‘bush’ helps to create a visual which is distinctively an Australian outback setting. Lawson repeats this term to give the reader a sense of how harsh
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‘Dulce Et Decorum est’ is a poem written during World War I in which Wilfred Owen tries to persuade people that it is not “Sweet and Fitting” to die for ones country. Wilfred Owen uses his own experiences to describe gas attacks he was part of as he and the group of soldiers left the front line trenches. He then goes on to say what it was like to the horror of watching someone who can not get the gas mask on in time and then has his own techniques to describe the image of death‚ caused by gas. He
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By Maddy Arnold Good afternoon teachers and fellow year 12 students‚ today I would like to talk about how distinctively visual images from Henry Lawson’s texts ‘The Drover’s Wife” and “The Loaded Dog” are conveyed. The Australian outback suggest a sense of isolation and distinctiveness however provides the responder with a sense of identity of the individual. The Drover’s Wife portrays the ruggedness and unforgiving nature of the bush while The Loaded Dog focuses on the humorous language to explain
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Distinctively visual texts allow the responder to clearly understand the perspective of the composer. How have two of the stories of Henry Lawson‚ and the film Punctured by Baker and Klein‚ allowed you to understand the composer’s perspective through distinctively visual techniques? Composers employ various techniques to create distinctively visual texts which enable responders to clearly imagine‚ form meaning and understand a composer’s unique perspective. Henry Lawson’s short stories ‘The
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“composers employ the distinctively visual to reveal truths and elicit a reaction from the responder” Discuss in reference to the set text and one of your own choosing Texts tend to reveal hidden truths behind important events in our history‚ doing so in a way which illustrates the impact that war has on individuals who are involved in it. The Shoe Horn Sonata written by John Mito in conjunction with Weapons Training by Bruce Dawe reveals several truths of which responders were unaware. Some of
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For EACH of your texts‚ analyse techniques that made you feel strongly about a main theme or issue. The two poems‚ Dulce et Decorum Est‚ and Anthem for Doomed Youth are both written by Wilfred Owen. Owen’s main idea was to expose the true horrors of war and to challenge the romanticised view of war that poets such as Rupert Brooke held. To achieve this‚ Owen used familiar imagery techniques of similes and assonance‚ and sound devices such as onomatopoeia and alliteration. ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’
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English 1900 B March 14‚ 2014 1000 words “It Is Not Sweet And Honourable To Die For Ones’ Country” In Owens ’ "Dulce et Decorum Est" the speaker recounts witnessing a fellow soldiers ’ death during a gas attack in World War I and reveals his resulting psychological trauma through his re-occurring nightmares. He questions the "old Lie" (27) that the youth are repeatedly told. Consequently‚ the speaker cautions potential soldiers of the horrifying physical and psychological realities of war
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Comparing and Contrasting Poetry The poems I have chosen to compare in this essay are Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce Et Decorum Est” and Jessie Pope’s “Who’s For The Game?”. The two poems I have chosen to compare are both about the first world war. Yet the two poems have very different opinions on the Great War. My first poem‚ Dulce et decorum‚ is against the war and the injustice of it all. It is narrated by one of the soldiers who is fighting in the Great War and having to face the horrors of war. On
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The poems “In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae and “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen are both magnificent poems that are based on the same theme‚ from the same time period and written in similar circumstances. However‚ these two poems present such different points of view. Both John McCrae and Wilfred Owen were poets and soldiers during World War One‚ but they both had different roles and experiences in the war‚ so it makes sense that each of their poems are different‚ and relate to what they
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