Historical Context. Slessor was appointed official war correspondent by the Commonwealth government in February 1940. He served in North Africa‚ Greece and Syria thus saw a good deal of action. He regarded the position as a great honour and was loyal to the traditions and mythology of the Anzacs. Slessor’s was famous for his war diaries and poetry as his experience of being at the war front directly influence his writing. The futility of war is a common theme and sense carried throughout these
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running past you? That the world kept spinning while you just stood still? Time is a central theme in many of Kenneth Slessor’s poems‚ however it is primarily explored through ‘Out of time’ and ‘Five Bells’. Slessor has made it obvious that he is aware that time continues whether we want it to or not and this is what allows us to put into perspective the notion of humanity’s dominance. Slessor uses a cyclical structure in both poems proving effective in helping portray the theme of time. This is shown
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Kenneth Slessor - Beach Burial The title of the poem‚ ’Beach Burial’‚ has an ironic slant‚ as beaches are commonly associated with life and pleasure. Instead‚ the poem consists of the opposite: death and sorrow. Similarly‚ the poem first two stanzas include low‚ soft sounds‚ such as "softly"‚ "humbly"‚ "convoys" and "rolls"‚ with the rhythm and alliteration of "swaying and wandering"‚ which present a calm‚ soothing tone. However‚ this soothing calm is more of a grief‚ as illustrated by the onomatopoeia
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Kenneth Slessor was a well known Australian poet whom was also an official correspondent during the second World War. Slessor was born on the 27th of March 1901 in Orange‚ New South Wales. Kenneth Slessor was one of Australia’s leading poets. He was notable particularly for the absorption of modernist influences into the Australian poetry. William Street and Beach Burial are the two poems that contain such techniques which shape significant ideas in Slessor’s poetry. William Street is a poem
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Five Bells Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not my time‚ the flood that does not flow. Between the double and the single bell Of a ship’s hour‚ between a round of bells From the dark warship riding there below‚ I have lived many lives‚ and this one life Of Joe‚ long dead‚ who lives between five bells. Deep and dissolving verticals of light Ferry the falls of moonshine down. Five bells Coldly rung out in a machine’s voice. Night and water Pour to one rip of darkness‚ the Harbour floats
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put into these movies. There are a huge number of movies that are like this. One in particular would be North Country starring Charlize Theron. This movie is a fictionalized account of the first major sexual harassment case in the United States—Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines‚ where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit (North Country). The movie is inspired by a brave woman who fought so hard for what she wanted‚ but the movie portrays
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Many stereotypes of women were depicted in the movie North Country. The first major one that I notice was when the main character was talking to her childhood friend after washing her hair. He friend told her that she worked at the town mine. The main character automatically asked her if she was a secretary there. This is a large stereotype that has affected women for a long time. Many people assume that the job a woman would be working in a male environment such as mining must be as a secretary
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“North Country” Josey was a woman who was looking for a new start when she and her 2 kids left her abusive husband. Unfortunately the abuse did not stop for Josey. The abuse continued when Josey went to work at the Mining company to get some extra money so she could take care of her two kids and move out of her parents house. Josey worked at a salon before moving to the mining company. At the salon she was not making enough money to make ends meet. This was an example of rights theory not being
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North Country stars Charlize Theron as a female worker at an iron mining company in Northern Minnesota who is sexually harassed and leads a class-action lawsuit against her employer for failing to protect her and other female employees. "What Josey Aimes wants is a decent job so she can put food on the table and take care of her kids. What she gets is threatened‚ insulted‚ ogled‚ fondled‚ belittled‚ attacked and called filthy names. "Take it like a man‚" her callous male boss says. Instead‚ she takes
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The theme in the poem “Homecoming”‚ by Bruce Dawe‚ is the feeling and belonging of home and how you can die for your country‚ yet receive inhumane like treatment. The theme in “Beach Burial”‚ by Kenneth Slessor‚ is the pointlessness of war. The two poems are very similar‚ yet very different‚ in meaning and tone‚ through their subjects‚ themes‚ techniques and structure. Both poems relate to the same post-war event; bringing the corpses of soldiers back from war. However‚ in “Homecoming” the corpses
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