Turtle's Hatching Poem

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Essay question, “Imagery has the power to provoke and illustrate”, relate to mark o’connors poems and an ort, highlighting an issue, and the significance of the imagery on the responder.
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An issue is addressed, when the consequences are presented. Composers manipulate imagery, t..o highlight issues concerning society. Imagery is utilized to highlight issues, in an imaginative and interesting way. The statement. “Imagery has the power to evoke and to illustrate”. Mark O'Connor's poems, “Turtles Hatching” and “The Beginning”, can be differentiated with the documentary “Why Poverty” by Weijun Chen. O'Connor's poems explores the concept of humanity’s impact on the environment. Chen’s documentary presents the audience with the effects of poverty, on youth education. Chen explores both rural and urban China, documenting poverty's effect on the local youths education. Thus both texts will be further analysed to demonstrate imagery’s influence on the issue conveyed.

In the poem “Turtles Hatching”, Mark O’Connor incorporates imagery to highlight the issue of keeping
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Chen highlights this issue, with contrasting images.. of struggle and success, to emphasise inequality. Chen portrays a contrasting image of poverty and non-poverty affected Chinese youth. The use of transition and dialogue in, “Some rural kids don’t even know what a computer looks like”. This highlights the inequality, deriving from poverty. Subsequently the imagery conveys the responder to act on humanity, social injustice. This is further exemplified through the image of a rural youth applying for a job. The Mid-Shot and High Modality in, “You won’t survive by just knowing the basics”. Emphasising the visual image of poverty’s impact on rural youths future. Thus, Chen employs imagery, to evoke the need to act on China’s poverty

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