effective visual impacts in The Shoe-Horn Sonata and ONE other related text of your own choosing? Prescribed Text: The Shoe-Horn Sonata Related Text: The Truman Show The utilization of elements used by John Misto in The Shoe-Horn Sonata and Peter Weir in The Truman Show help the audiences create distinctive and effective visual images. The elements used are Projected Images‚ Symbolism‚ Use of Interviewers‚ Sense of truth / Overcoming adversity‚ and metaphors. Both texts are distinctly visual which
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Gwen Harwood’s poetry endures to engage readers through its poetic treatment of loss and consolation. Gwen Harwood’s seemingly ironic simultaneous examination of the personal and the universal is regarded as holding sufficient textual integrity that it has come to resonate with a broad audience and a number of critical perspectives. This is clearly evident within her poems ‘At Mornington’ and ‘A Valediction’‚ these specific texts have a main focus on motif that once innocence is lost it cannot be
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Gwen Harwood- Father and Child The ability of a text to be universally accepted in a range of contexts ultimately determines its textual integrity and appreciation. Gwen Harwood’s work draws from the inspiration of her context‚ her lifelong influences‚ primarily music‚ her childhood and religious beliefs. This can be identified through study of Gwen Harwood’s poem‚ "Father and Child" that is able to be appreciated in a multitude of different contexts due to its universality and textual integrity
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Gwen Harwood’s poetry focuses on the concepts of loss and consolation‚ which‚ through her exploration of universal themes and deft use of poetic and literary techniques‚ has continued to engage readers over the ages. My understanding of her poems resonates with these ideas about them‚ as does it the notion that Harwood’s poetry examines ideas of the growth towards maturity‚ understanding and wisdom‚ and the connection this shares with the conventional images of youth and age. The poems “Father and
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gathered flowers‚ with tenderness stroking my mother’s goldbrown hair. Stone-curlews call from Kedron Brook. Faint scent of violets drifts in the air How has Gwen Harwood used her poem ‘The Violets’ in metaphorical terms? Explain. ‘The Violets’ by Gwen Harwood‚ illustrates a number of metaphors outlined between the differences of childhood and becoming an adult. Such metaphors counted are used within the context of the Violet flower‚ this being placed for
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be one that reflects on her youth and reminisces on the wonderful memories she shared with her family and the feeling of protection and safety gained from them‚ others may read it differently. For example a colleague of mine proposed the idea that Harwood was now an older women‚ depressed and trying to find or remember a time in her life when she was in fact happy‚ that she is trying to escape the inevitability of death by escaping to her youth. Either way her poems offer the responder a variety of
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judgment of this poem and Harwood’s poetry as a whole. Through a critical study of Gwen Harwood’s poetry‚ the responder’s personal response has a significant effect on their judgement towards her poetry. In The Sharpness of Death‚ Harwood explores the inexplicable link between life and death‚ as well as the value of memories in response to the inevitable passing of time. Similarly in At Mornington‚ Harwood accentuates the value of appreciating life to overpower death and the importance of memories
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English Notes Textual Integrity * Textual Integrity is consistency in form‚ language‚ and structure. * Form: is the text dedicated to being a historical text‚ or is it a mish-mash of historical and autobiographical? If it’s an autobiography‚ does it have family photos‚ family tree? * Language: relates to form. Is it objective all the way? Is it in 3rd person narration all the way? Or does it jump between objectivity and subjectivity? * Structure: is there a sense of progression?
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violets’‚ ‘A Valediction’ and ‘Sharpness of Death’ Gwen Harwood poetry deeply explores many aspects of the human experience. In ‘The Violets’ her poetry explores the passage of time. That the passing of time is inevitable and brings about loss and change. This poem explores the nature of memories and the role they play in finding solace for this loss. ‘A Valediction’ explores the importance of the balance between physical and spiritual love. Harwood explores the nature of both form of love and how
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Henry Lawson & Distinctly visual. Context: Much of Lawson’s work was set in the Australian bush or was about bush life. His characters reflect his personal experiences of the world during his time‚ focusing on ’real’ characters who are down on their luck‚ women‚ children and roving workers. At the time the bush somehow fascinated people because of its overall harshness and the people that survived there. Lawson was from the bush‚ was brought up in bush poverty and suffered the hardships and
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