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    Ancestors by Peter Skrzynecki REFLECTION The poem Ancestors by Peter Skrzynecki is a excellent example of belonging and expresses his feeling of not belonging in his family. The poem presents a series of rhetorical questions which reflects on a dream Skrzynecki has had or is having and what he believes the meaning is. We could deduce from this poem and its use of present tense that the dream is a recurring dream about these vague images of Ancestors and how Skrzynecki is desperately trying to

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    Peter Skrzynecki - BELONGING Belonging is feeling a sense of acceptance‚ familiarity and unity‚ whether it is in a group of friends‚ family or within the community; however‚ barriers to belonging can exist. Peter Skrzynecki’s poem 10 Mary Street‚ emphasizes belonging to the family. Skrzynecki’s poem St Patrick College‚ depicts alienation in a community. The advertisement‚ Financial Disadvantage is About More Then Just Money‚ by the Smith Family‚ explores the idea of not being able to belonging

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    factors in one’s life influence and change our own sense of belonging. Peter Skrzynecki in his suite of poems “Immigrant Chronicle” and J.R.R Tolkien in his 1937 fictional novel “The Hobbit” both explore how social and personal factors influence an understanding of acceptance and belonging in their respective texts. Both Peter (being the persona) and Bilbo question in what social and personal situation can we belong. Skrzynecki uses the displacement of European migrants‚ in particular Polish migrants

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    surroundings is a consistent challenge where individuals must struggle not only with their personal obstacles‚ but also with the adversity of discovering a sense of affiliation in an antagonistic culture neighboring them. Peter Skrzynecki’s widely acknowledged poems ‘Immigrant Chronicles’ and Peter Weir’s universally acclaimed film ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ both exhibit the way one’s disconnectedness to person or place affects an individuals resistance to belonging. These two texts also accentuate the fundamental

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    connections people make within their world. Belonging can cause individuals to form positive connections with many aspects of our world‚ but in accordance with this there are many barriers to belonging‚ seen through the poem ‘Ancestors’ which shows Peter Skrzynecki’s failure to comprehend his cultural identity. Neglecting the commitment of one’s cultural identity forfeits one’s ability to accept themselves and thus belong in themselves. The protagonist in ‘Ancestors’ experiences confusion as he has

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    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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    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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    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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    Belonging + Alienation By Hameeda “Skrzynecki’s poetry explores the question of alienation just as much as it does the issue of belonging” Alienation is a universal human emotion which can only be addressed from an individual perspective and thus Peter Skrzynecki’s collection of highly personal poetry serves as a much more effective medium for exploring isolation that belonging. His anthology Immigrant Chronicles collates his exploration of belonging on cultural‚ familial and ideological levels as

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    affiliation towards an environment; whether it is social‚ or physical. This notion is extensively explored in Peter Skrzynecki’s poem ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’ from the anthology ‘Immigrant Chronicle’ and in Tim Winton’s – ‘Neighbours.’ Both texts explore the ways individuals achieve a sense of belonging‚ through finding comfort in a social and/or physical environment. Skrzynecki’s poem Feliks Skrzynecki explores the concept of belonging in which‚ the central character Feliks is portrayed as a man who didn’t

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