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    10 Mary Street For nineteen years We departed  Each morning‚ shut the house Like a well-oiled lock‚ Hit the key Under a rusty bucket: To school and work -  Over that still too-narrow bridge‚ Around the factory  That was always burning down. Back at 5p.m. From the polite hum-drum Of washing clothes  And laying sewerage pipes‚ My parents watered  Plants - grew potatoes And rows of sweet corn: Tended roses and camellias  Like adopted children  Home from school earlier I’d ravage

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    affiliation towards an environment; whether it is social‚ or physical. This notion is extensively explored in Peter Skrzynecki’s poem ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’ from the anthology ‘Immigrant Chronicle’ and in Tim Winton’s – ‘Neighbours.’ Both texts explore the ways individuals achieve a sense of belonging‚ through finding comfort in a social and/or physical environment. Skrzynecki’s poem Feliks Skrzynecki explores the concept of belonging in which‚ the central character Feliks is portrayed as a man who didn’t

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    Post Card Postcards is a poem‚ the last of the immigrant chronicles‚ written by Peter Skrzynecki. The immigrant Chronicles is a series of poems talking about Skrzynecki’s personal life and experiences of having parents who has emigrated from country under communist influence. This poem specifically talks about a postcard with an image of Warsaw‚ the largest town in Poland‚ printed on the front. It is an emotional poem which trigger different types of reactions at different stages of the poem

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    issues involved with belonging and use texts from the poet Peter Skrzynecki‚ the movie The Devil Wears Prada and lastly the song somewhere I belong by Linkin Park. Peter Skrynecki’s poems reflect a sense of belonging through many different ways and in many different contexts such as family‚ school and belonging

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    Peter Skrzynecki struggles to belong through isolation and therefore takes time and patience to feel attachment and security. The Poem St Patricks College written by Peter Skrzynecki clearly emphasises his feelings of not belonging within

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    Personal context plays an important role in defining Peter Skrzynecki’s individual and private sense of belonging as conveyed in both his poems‚ ‘Migrant Hostel’ and ’10 Mary Street’. By exploring and analysing both poems‚ the responder understands that an individual’s sense of belonging or not belonging does vary. Moreover‚ Skrzynecki’s social and cultural experiences add to our understanding of his notion of identity and acceptance with in Australia. Therefore‚ Skrzynecki’s poetic techniques and

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    Belonging + Alienation By Hameeda “Skrzynecki’s poetry explores the question of alienation just as much as it does the issue of belonging” Alienation is a universal human emotion which can only be addressed from an individual perspective and thus Peter Skrzynecki’s collection of highly personal poetry serves as a much more effective medium for exploring isolation that belonging. His anthology Immigrant Chronicles collates his exploration of belonging on cultural‚ familial and ideological levels as

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    Both Peter Skrzynecki’s ‘Immigrant Chronicle’ and Gabriele Muccino’s The Pursuit of Happiness represent the need for belonging through a character’s place and interpret the general need for place in belonging. Within ‘Immigrant Chronicle’‚ Skrzynecki’s poems ’10 Mary Street’ and ‘Migrant Hostel’ particularly demonstrate the positive and negative effects place can have on one’s ability to belong. ’10 Mary Street’ deals with a younger Skrzynecki’s experiences living within his working class family

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    whether you find it pleasant or not. Peter Skrzynecki shares his personal experience of migration and the years after through poems not all so pleasant‚ which I would like to show you parts of his journey today. I would also like to explore the picture book The Arrival by Shaun Tan also about migration experience. Born in 1945‚ Peter Skrzynecki moved from Germany at the end of WW2‚ travelling by sea to Australia spending time in migrant hostels in Sydney. Skrzynecki presents feelings of belonging

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    is believed that an individual’s interaction with others and the world around them can either enrich or even limit their experience of belonging. Both of Peter Skrzynecki’s poems “10 Mary Street” and “St Patricks College” along with the 2007 film “Hairspray” explores this concept. 10 Mary street refers to the story of the house that Peter and his family lived in after moving to Australia from Germany. A recurring theme throughout the whole poem is time‚ this is shown through the repetition of

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