Poetry is a superb way for a writer to express strong feelings and emotions using complex and in-depth literature. Lorna Munro exhibits the way the white people “stole” the aboriginal land in her poem ‘Dripping with Decadence’. She expresses an effective way of the changing Australian identity showing her hatred and anger to get her point across. ‘Life-cycle’ by Bruce Dawe, expands on the stereotype that all Victorians are born AFL players. This fun loving poem captures the humorous side to the changing Australian identity by using puns and relatable terms that we use to this…
We all know the nursery rhymes which we loved as a kid and sing to other children. Most people think of it as a child's song with no other meaning or maybe just a song of history. But they have what we might call a dark side, so prepare yourself for what you're about to here. Let's start with Ring Around the Rosie.…
The short story Aquifer, by one of Australian’s well-known novelist and short story writer, Tim Winton, is typically a story about a man’s reminiscence with his plausible flashbacks from his dreadful past that leads to his present. With the short story Aquifer, you are immediately immersed in Australia: the surroundings, its people, the sound:(p.40)”beyond the fence cicidas, birds whirred,”. It is an Australia imagined, wild and rambling, but also in a normal detailed place on a map: revolving around Western Perth, Australia:-(p.49-50)”The brown land, I figured wasn’t just as wide but deep too, “out west here, when the easterly blows”, from the 1960s: ( p.38) “The battler’s block in the early sixties”. Winton has successfully used characterisation, setting, storyline and he has carefully narrated it from his narrator’s perspective. This essay would demonstrate how Winton has been successful in creating a coherent fictional world and how he used his settings to demonstrate his narrator’s point of view from the story Aquifer.…
kay, so now we know about timshel, but it's also Adam's last word before he dies (at least it wasn't something totally random like rosebud). He says it right after Lee gets him to give Cal his blessing, i.e. show that he loves him as a son and free him from the guilt of "killing" his brother. It's a moment where things are at a crossroads for Cal: he could go on hating himself for what he has done and thinking that his dad died hating his guts, or he can be free and go on to break the Cain-Abel curse that seems to follow the Trask family around. As Lee says to Adam, "Give him his chance"…
In this poem, the speaker of the poem is a soldier who has just joined the Union. The soldier at first did not know which road to take, to join the Confederates or the Union. Upon deciding to join the Union, he realized that with his choice of entering, there may be altercations with people that do not have the same views as he does. After choosing the North, the soldier saw that being a soldier was going to be hard. For example, he needed to find food and water to survive.…
You control me, own me, stripped me of my freedom, beat me, skinned me all so I could wash your clothes, plow your fields cook your food when I am free I am not free as the scars remind me daily of the unjustified action to any human being was carried out by you, the white man. So why are your upset that Nat Turner and his supporters killed nearly seventy five when you the white man have killed hundreds if not thousands of men, women and children of slavery. Mentally and physically you enslaved me until 1865. The Insurrection response was more of a character identifier something like a Shakespeare “where cometh thou.”…
In Alan Paton’s Cry the Beloved Country, three books depict the separation between the blacks and the whites, and use the land to exemplify the interactions between the two races. Paton’s use of symbols and metaphors connected to the land, convey the tarnished social and human conditions displayed throughout the book. In this portion of the book, the most prominent metaphor of the land is how it becomes more barren and lifeless because the natives leave the countryside for the more prosperous land, Johannesburg. The land expresses the tradition of the natives.…
1863 to approximately 1964, coming up from almost 250 years of slavery, the world was filled with segregation. “Between the World and Me” (1935), a poem written by Richard Wright in the middle of it all, talks about a lynching taking place in the woods. It gives chilling details elucidating the torture of a black man for sleeping with a white woman. The captivating phraseology from the narrator’s perspective draws you in, giving its readers a clear vision of this fiendish extralegal act. Symbolism, personification and imagery is the most symbolic literary aspects of Wright’s poem.…
“A Certain Lady” is a short poem written by Dorothy Parker detailing a woman’s thoughts on her relationship with a mysterious man. The poem is written as a monologue about the woman’s ability to appear happy around the man and his inability to gauge her true feelings. Despite her affection for him, he constantly tells her stories of his exploits with women. While the topic itself seems simple in nature, the relationship in question, as well as the poem itself, is quite complex. Each stanza adds layers of complexity to the poem.…
The poet is trying to get across the fact that England is an easier country to live in, but Australia is an…
In the first two line, Shire writes, “you are a horse running alone, and he tries to tame you.” It’s common ideal that women are animals that are untamed and wild and it is up to a man to control them and place them in their place.. Shire compares female to an animal that is known for its stubbornness and eventually a master is able to be reined it in by means of force. It’s the notion that difficult woman will at some point buckle down and do as they are told for that is what they are trained to do. What is also shown in the next couple of lines, “compares you to an impossible highway to a burning house,” all these comparisons are to objects or animals, it is taking away the fact the is is a human being, it’s a woman, it’s supposed to be…
During our life’s journey, our experiences and relationships we have with others are often the most memorable when we are able to see things in a new way. However, such memories and relationships we have with others stick with us so strongly that we will forever see certain people and events the same way, with an unchanged perspective. Monumental moments, such as a loved one’s death in “Violets,” by Gwen Harwood does not alter the persona’s view of their parents. In contrast, the persona in “Violets” is able to reflect on the memories of herself as a child and her relationship with her parents in another light. At some point in our personal journey, our childlike innocence is often shaken and we are forced to mature into adulthood.…
In the poem, “On Not Shoplifting Louise Bogan’s The Blue Estuaries” Julia Alvarez writes about her experience while reading The Blue Estuaries and of what she discovers as she is more aware of what she is reading and of the feelings of determination and inspiration the poem brought out in her because In the poem “On Not Shoplifting Louise Bogan’s The Blue Estuaries”, Julia Alvarez uses imagery, selection of detail, and tone to convey the speaker's discoveries of wanting become a poet even with the barriers she faced of not knowing English fluently and being a girl who wants to become a successful poet. Alvarez uses selection of detail to convey how the poems in the book by Louise Bogan had further stirred up her appreciation and liking of…
In the play Love’s Labour’s Lost, by William Shakespeare, five men, after swearing to not talk to women at all for three years, fall for five women. Hysterics ensue. In an effort to woo the women they have fallen for, these five men, composed of a King and his Lords and constituents, decide to write poetry. Unfortunately for them and the ladies they have fallen for, none of their works are particularly outstanding. However, compared to his four peers, Biron does the finest job of writing his poem, as he flatters the woman he is writing to, stays on topic, and acknowledges her intelligence and wisdom-- all things that are rare to find in the other poems.…
The poem “Lost Sister,” by Cathy Song examines the zone and dilemma of a woman being lost between two cultures. The poem demonstrates how the author feels psychologically lost. This poem is about a Chinese woman who is facing the difficult reality of being a Chinese immigrant. In the poem “Lost Sister,” Cathy Song explores the lives of two generations of Chinese women, and how they are linked by culture through the use of theme, tone, and comparison. “Lost Sister,” has major themes that examine one’s identity, a sense of belonging, and rebellion as it relates to freedom.…