people make throughout their lives. Belonging can also allow for people to form positive connections; however there are also many barriers to belonging. Some of these barriers are explored in peter Skrzynecki’s poem “Ancestors”. The poem shows Skrzynecki’s failure to comprehend his own cultural identity. Skrzynecki uses the idea of ancestors and ghosts to show familial‚ cultural and historical belonging. In “Ancestors” the narrator experiences a disconnection and lack of belonging to his polish heritage
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is no rule book on how to belong so it must be frequently improvised. Peter Skrzynecki communicates the concept of belonging through his poems ’10 Mary Street’ and ‘In The Folk Museum’ by using such techniques as similes metaphors and person pronouns and I‚ Frank McCourt‚ communicate my ideas on belonging in my biographical novel‚ ‘Angela’s Ashes’‚ through the use of analogy and allusion. By using similes it allows Skrzynecki to articulate the connection that he had had to the house at ‘10 Mary
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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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confirmed in the texts I have studied: Immigrant Chronicle by Peter Skrynecki‚ and the novel Fiddler on the Roof by Norman Jewison. These three texts demonstrate that an individual can make difficult choices to not belong as well as belong depending on what they want. As mentioned above‚ making difficult choices can also make a person not to belong. This concept is aptly demonstrated in Peter Skrynecki’s poem ‘Postcard’. In this poem‚ Skrzynecki shows his decisions using a number of figurative devices
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Peter Skrzynecki Peter Skrzynecki explores his perceptions and ideas of belonging in the anthology of poems from “Immigrant chronicle”. The concept of belonging is conveyed through the represent action of people‚ relationship‚ ideas‚ place‚ events and societies. In the text responders may experience and understand all the facts of belonging or not belonging‚ this awareness may be influenced by the different ways perspectives are created through the voice of Peter Skrzynecki. The language techniques
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in two of Peter Skrzynecki’s Poems‚ Migrant Hostel and 10 Mary Street and also in the 1997 film ‘Titanic’. In Peter Skrzynecki’s Migrant Hostel‚ he talks about the 2 years of his life that he and most of his family lived in a Migrant hostel in Parkes after coming to Australia after World War 2 from Poland and leaving most of his family and polish heritage behind. This poem gives the responder a sense of confusion about whether he belongs or not to this migrant hostel. Skrzynecki creates this
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sealed off the highway from our doorstep— as it rose and fell like a finger pointed in reprimand or shame; and daily we passed underneath or alongside it— needing its sanction to pass in and out of lives that had only begun or were dying. Analysis: Present participle in ‘comings and goings’ and the impersonal description of ‘busloads from the station’ emphasize the vast number of European immigrants arriving in Australia Factual language used to describe the hostel convey the sense of disconnection
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connection to a person‚ group or place. Migrants often experience alienation and exclusion before experiencing acceptance and belonging into the new society. Peter skrzynecki portrays migration as a painful‚ soul searching experience‚ re forging a sense of personal and cultural identity which is evident in Migrant hostel. On the contrary Peter displays a perspective were the family feels stability and security at their address 10 Mary Street. The journey to belong often proves to be a great burden;
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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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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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