intimate bond with place. I believe I have learnt that belonging is the most basic human desire‚ a part of the human condition. In order to achieve true belonging‚ however‚ many feel the need to belong to a particular place. In Peter Skrzynecki’s poem Migrant Hostel‚ and in a feature article in the Sydney Morning Herald titled All at sea in a leaky boat‚ the concept of belonging to self as a human desire is explored through displacement. Displacement is a fundamental
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truth. Often when a person begins a journey they are forced to take a deep look at themselves‚ and are often permanently changed by what they find. T.S. Eliot’s poem‚ "Journey of the Magi"‚ describes their transition to spiritual enlightenment through three stages; the journey‚ the arrival‚ and the aftermath. The first stanza of the poem begins with the journey of the Magi. It starts in the negative connotation‚ with words such as; "cold"‚ "long"‚ and "dead." (1‚ 3‚ 5) Working parallel with the
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Synopsis This poem by L.E. Thayer is very intelligent. Thayer shows in stanza one that there is a hill as the known obstacle and a stone as well that gets in the way. He then has to ascend; he climbs up and overrules adversity‚ which are known in the poem as the hill‚ stone‚ grime and blinding storm. The poem has very obvious imagery‚ just alone picturing the blinding storm in the reader’s brain makes him/her feel as if he/she were in the same situation as the Thayer. The poem also has a good amount
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Giving a helping hand In today’s society‚ “going green” has ultimately become the latest and greatest fad sweeping the nation; from recyclable grocery bags to vegetable oil being used as gasoline replacement‚ our society is slowly coming together to accommodate our environment. As we have seen in the last decade our world’s lack of natural resources and pollution problems have become a huge ordeal. Having to find alternatives from gasoline‚ for example‚ could potentially help our economic recession
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One protest issue we learnt about this term was Racism. Racism is a form of discrimination based on race‚ especially the belief that one race is superior to another. In “Strange Fruit” Abel Meeropol protests and raises awareness of the treatment of African Americans in South USA. The song describes the scene of lynching of Black American’s and their resemblance to a fruit hanging from a tree. We also studied the poem “took the children away” by Archie Roach which similarly portrayed a great understanding
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In the poem “Love Poem With Toast”‚ Miller Williams uses imagery to illustrate the complex relationship between two characters. Starting off in the very first stanza‚ William writes a very bland line‚ “Some of what we do‚ we do to make things happen‚” making this line seem lifeless and distasteful. It’s later accompanied by the lines “the alarm to wake us up‚ the coffee to perc‚ the car to start.” This helps support the very first line in showing the reader that their lives are very routine-based
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books‚ movies and television shows have turned the disaster into a legend that even after a century is a household name. In the poems‚ “Titanic” by David R. Slavitt and “The Convergence of the Twain” by Thomas Hardy‚ the authors use tone and structure to challenge the romanticized view of the Titanic. In “Titanic” David Slavitt uses a sarcastic tone to criticize the way we have romanticized the sinking of the Titanic. He uses phrases such as‚ “give
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idea that reality is harsh by using imagery to illustrate the fear of reality towards the reader when writing‚ “we‚ bull ants‚ terrified of sadistic feet”. Dissimilar to Kelen‚ Auden utilizes clichés to express the depressive response that reality brings forth towards the fantasy life we build up in the writing‚ “I though that love would last forever: I was wrong”‚ this allows the poem to recite a shared thought and convey the idea of how reality destroys this cliché through death towards the reader
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“The Myopic Child” We all become different than others‚ meaning we grow-up. We might be 12 or even 34. But in some part of our life we become different than others. “The Myopic Child” by Yannis Ritsos describes perfectly how in that situations a person can be. If it’s confusing‚ you obviously didn’t grow up. Just kidding. The poet give us this poem and shows us how he lived his childhood but never really was living. The style of the poem is more of a confessional poem. He gives us words that describe
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Poems saying how this was not at all like they thought. They also were explaining in their poems how excited they were to start a new life. Here is an example of a poem found in one of the buildings on the island. I am distressed that we Chinese are in this wooden building It is actually racial barriers which cause difficulties on Yingtai Island. Even while they are
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