Peter Skrzynecki is of Polish/Ukrainian background and was born in 1945‚ in Germany‚ shortly before the end of World War II. He emigrated to Australia in 1949 with his parents. Most of Skrzynecki’s poems are about his life and the change that he has experienced from moving to a different country. In 1951 the family moved to Sydney‚ to the working-class suburb of Regents Park‚ where a home had been purchased at 10 Mary Street. The poem “10 Mary Street” represents change as it shows the comparison
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affect the way one belongs to people‚ places‚ groups or the larger world. Peter Skrzynecki’s persistent desire to connect/belong to his cultural heritage is carried forth in various poems‚ such as Feliks Skrzynecki and St. Patrick’s College. Cultural barriers determine whether the composer/responder is able to belong‚ and shows the ways in which he attempts to belong. The continual desire to belong to
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What techniques do the composers employ to represent their ideas about the journey and its impact both mental and physical? Refer to two Skrzynecki poems and two related texts. A physical journey which involves the movement from one place to another can have lasting effects on an individual or group which can be mental‚ emotional‚ physical‚ or a combination. The effects and overall impact of a journey will depend on the characteristics of the particular journey undertaken. The composers of different
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felt strongly or sustained unless many elements work together. Feliks Skrzynecki lost his sense of connection with his son because his son peter Skrzynecki lost his sense of identity‚ connection with his background‚ culture and heritage. Felix Skrzynecki explores the relationship between the poet and his‚ father‚ and contrasting experiences of belonging in a new land. The poem opens with a positive description of peter Skrzynecki claiming him as “My gentle father” and “the softness of his blue eyes”
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hardships however they also involve emotional and spiritual journeys along the way. Peter Skrzynecki’s poems “Postcard” and “Crossing The Red Sea” are both examples of an emotional journey within a physical journey. A feature article ‘A Desert Odyssey’ reported by Sue Williams and Robert Frost’s poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ also involve emotional journeys within a physical journey. ‘Postcard’ is a poem by Skrzynecki about the arrival of a postcard for his parents. As Skrzynecki’s culture is different
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‘Home’. This photograph uniquely explores ideas about belonging as to provoke thought in regards to the viewer’s perception of what it actually means to belong. Likewise‚ these ideas surrounding a connection to people and places are expressed in Peter Skrzynecki’s Immigrant Chronicles. Belonging is the central theme throughout the photograph ‘Home’ which is clearly represented through the caricature of a child girl establishing herself in a fantasy world she is depicted drawing herself into. Ben
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feel marginalized‚ unsociable and alone. This notion is extensively explored within Peter Skrzynecki’s poem‚ St. Patrick’s College‚ from the anthology Immigrant Chronicle‚ and Richard Kelly’s 2001 film Donnie Darko as both texts illustrate the protagonist’s limited and negative experience of belonging through their interaction with others resulting in acts of insubordination. Contrary to negative belonging‚ Peter Skrzynecki’s poem‚ 10 Mary Street- also from the anthology Immigrant Chronicle-explores
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what it teaches. Good morning teachers and fellow students. Through the text ’Crossing the Red Sea’ by Peter Skrzynecki. This text have helped effectively shape my understanding of physical journeys by developing empathy with the migrants in the poem‚ and the techniques and ideas incorporated in them have increased and developed my understanding. The text ’Crossing The Red Sea’ by Peter Skrzynecki catches the immigrants experience at a point between 2 worlds‚ as those on board leave their homelands
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Peter Skrzynecki’s poems "Feliks Skrzynecki" and "Postcard" both explore complex idea about belonging. Both poems suggest that belonging comes from a connection to place and people‚ people can choose to belong and that belonging can be modified over time. Feliks in Peter Skzynecki’s poem "Feliks Skzynecki" feels a close connection to places and people. He is described at the beginning of the poem as loving "his garden like an only child"‚ sweeping "its paths/ Ten times around the world." The simile
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Through the use of techniques‚ a composer is able to create distinctively visual images when describing setting and characters which help us to understand and form meaning of what the composer is trying to convey in their texts. The use of techniques to create distinctively visual images which help us to convey an understanding and form a meaning is evident in the novel Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy‚ the film Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott‚ and the poem Mending Wall by Robert Frost. The clear
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