MY COUNTRY: ANALYSIS Dorothea Mackellar’s ‘My Country’ is a poem expressing Mackellar’s deep passion and love for her country‚ Australia. The whole poem’s intention seems to evoke the sense of praising for the country and express Mackellar’s deep relationship and passion with her land. Mackellar attains this response from the audience by using numerous language techniques such as; Juxtaposition‚ personification‚ sound patterns including alliteration and assonance‚ imagery‚ and paradox. The use of
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How is an Australian Voice transgressed through the texts studied? The Australian voice is highlighted extensively throughout the inspirational texts‚ this creates credibility therefore helps the composers shape ideals. This is shown in the poem My Country composed by Dorothea Mackellar and in the visually stimulating urban poem‚ William Street written by Kenneth Slessor. Kenneth Slessor’s poem William Street demonstrates the use of an Urban Australian voice through the use of techniques and effects
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Stanza One: Starts with ’I love a sunburnt country ’‚ which is the exact wording of the second stanza in the original poem by Dorothea Mackellar. This particular stanza (from the original) is the most oem by Oscar Krahnvohl like environmental issues‚ humanity issues‚ cultural issues and politicwell-known‚ and by Oscar starting with this particular line‚ he exposes the brilliance of the previous poem‚ but the next few lines start as a parody from the influence of the previous poem. In this stanza
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My ideal holiday….^_^(350)words Holidays is a time for us to relax and release stress‚every one like holidays.After a long time of busy working or studies‚ many people will decides to have an ideal holiday to relax‚especialy for the people who stay in the city.I have many different ways to decide how to arrange my holiday time.(53) First of all‚ I will like to spend my holiday times to went travel with my family to the other country that we haven’t been traveled before. I will prefer to travel
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to pick a life changing event that totally turned my life upside down and then side up again is my sudden move to the United States. I was born in Mexico City‚ surrounded by two sisters and a brother who spoiled me endlessly‚ as I was the youngest out of the four of us. I was happy‚ ignorant to the world problems around me and awfully pleased to have five pesos every day‚ just enough to buy my favorite snack. Unbeknownst to me‚ was the fact that my parents were struggling‚ not only to provide for
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My favourite sportsman Kimi Raikönnen is my favourite sportsman. He is a Finnish racing driver. When he joined the Sauber Formula 1 team he was only 21 and had raced in only 23 car races in his life. But he had won more than half of them. He won the Championship with Ferrari in 2007. Then he took a break from Formula 1 for a while and raced in rallies‚ but last year he returned back‚ driving for the Lotus team. Räikkönen is very calm‚ cool‚ and calculating in his race strategy and he is known
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Topic: My Favourite Festival Good morning to my English teacher‚ Miss Zarina and my fellow classmates. Today I am going to share with you about my favourite festival‚ which is Chinese New Year. Of all festivals in Malaysia‚ I like Chinese New Year the most. Chinese New Year falls on the first day of the first lunar month. Each year coincides with an animal sign‚ of which there are twelve in the sequence of the rat‚ ox‚ tiger‚ rabbit‚ dragon‚ snake‚ horse‚ goat‚ monkey‚ dog and
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My Favourite Book It’s hard to imagine our lives without books. We learn a lot of interesting things when we read books. Books are our great friend‚ teachers and advisers. They teach us how to take the next step when we are in a difficult situation. They help to shape our life. It is impossible to become an educated person without books. Besides‚ books play an important role in upbringing our feelings‚ views and tastes; give us a lot of useful information. Frankly speaking I’m not a bookworm but
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My favourite place There are many interesting places in this world. Most of us will prefer beautiful place as Coliseum in Italy or Taj Mahal in India as their favourite place but I choose a tree house that I call “Kassim’s Palace”. It takes its named after the name of my late grandfather. This place is very meaningful to me because I have many memories with my grandfather at this place. The Kassim’s Palace is situated in the trees behind my grandfather’s house. The Kassim’s Palace was built
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authors such as‚ Charles Dickens‚ Tolstoy‚ Dominique Lappiere‚ Rabindranath Tagore‚ R. K. Narayan‚ Arundhathi Roy‚ Salman Rushdie‚ etc. have always charmed and thrilled me‚ giving waves of delight‚ leisure‚ relaxation and mental refreshment. My favourite book is ‘City of Joy’ written by Dominique Lappiere. The book is a touching description of the lives of the slum-dwellers of Kolkata. The street-urchins‚ cycle-rickshaw pullers‚ city-vendors‚ coolies‚ pimps‚ ordinary men and women are the heroes
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