can be represented in various ways and can be spotted in a range of Australian poems. These poems are written by Australian poets who try to portray the Australian lifestyle and depiction of Aussie culture and experiences. Good morning/afternoon fellow audience members‚ I have selected two poems titled “My Country” and “Australia” to deconstruct and explain how they reflect on the Australian representation. The poem "My Country" was written by Dorothea Mackellar in 1908. She first wrote this literary
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The poem that was chosen was “Stone” by Charles Simic. Charles Simic argues that it is better to be as simple as a stone‚ than being energetic and some other kind of creature or object that has action in its life. The narrator is telling us that his idea of perfection or tranquility is being a stone‚ lying there‚ doing nothing for eternity. He prefers this over being something like a tiger or something with action. In the beginning of the poem‚ Charles Simic says the he would go straight to doing
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First the Land Was Ours Yellow M 260 The Family Man Yellow M 61 Life-Cycle Blue L 86 Doctor to Patient Blue L 231 Prison Alphabet Blue L 150 Reflections on a Benevolent Dictatorship 1. What opinion is Dawe expressing through this poem? That dictatorship is bad 2. What is the character reflecting about? The character is reflecting about a benevolent dictatorship‚ and how it resembles people who are incapable and live in a mental home. And about all the bad things that had Happened
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Interpretation of poems Dulce et decorum est are the first words of a Latin saying taken from an ode by Horace). The words were widely understood and often quoted at the start of the First World War. They mean "It is sweet and right." The full saying ends the poem: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - it is sweet and right to die for your country. In other words‚ it is a wonderful and great honour to fight and die for your country. The opening of the poem suggests Owen pities the state to
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their peak of glory they die. Would the memory of them and their glory live on longer? In the lryic poem "To an Athlete Dying Young" by A.E. Houseman the narrator shows how dying young and at the peak of your glory is better then living to be forgotten. The setting of the poem is in a town and cemetery in nineteenth-century England during the funeral and burial of a young athlete‚ a runner. The first stanza explains the victory of a boy winning a race in his town. Neighbors and admires of the athlete
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Discuss the ways in which the poets convey the horrors of war In the two war poems “Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen on “War Photographer” by Carol Anna Duffy‚ the writers convey the horrors in different ways. In Dulce Et Decorum Est” Owen writes from the perspective of a tired worn out soldier. In “War Photographer” Duffy writes from the perspective of a man who captured the war. In the poem “Dulce Et Decorum Est” the main mood is dark and depressing. Owen refers to diction that
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Literature II Research Paper & Journal Table of Context a. Research Paper ………………………………………………………………………………. 2 b. Poems 1. Sir Patrick Spens ………………………………………………………………………… 6 2. Amazing Grace ………………………………………………………………………..… 9 3. Shakespeare Sonnet 55 ………………………………………………………………… 11 4. The Relic ……………………………………………………………………………..… 12 5. The Flea ………………………………………………………………………………... 14 6. The Anniverserie ……………………………………………………………………….. 16 7. The Canonization ………………………………………………………………………. 18 8. Batter
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most famous three poems of S. T. Coleridge. It was first published in Lyrical Ballads in 1798‚ a collection of poems that essentially launched the movement known as British Romanticism. The first version of the poem was entitled The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere‚ and much of the spelling was very archaic (old expression). Modern editions used today appeared in Coleridge’s collection Sibylline Leaves in 1817 that featured marginal glosses‚ explanations on allegorical feel of the poem and scholarly notes
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The poem “Mothers” by Nikki Giovanni is about two states of mind. An adult dealing with the ups and downs of everyday life and a concerned child. This is shown by the use of opposite words. “Dark-light” and “pleasantries and unpleasantries.” Being a child‚ Nikki was trying to make sense of what was happening around her. She sees her mother sitting in a chair in a dark room upset her. Nikki is apparently a frightened child. The wetting of the bed confirms her fear. She wrote about and absent father
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Tarek Taji - 41040 POL 201 – sec.2 Introduction to Political Science Feb 18th /2013 Summary of Rousseau’s Book “On the Social Contract” book 1. “Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.” Rousseau’s words that says much about the concept of the Social Contract and other main concepts in life. Here‚ he is trying to raise a question if the “governing authorities” whether support the freedom of people or are they the “chains” over people’s
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