Discoveries lead to new perceptions of the world, new values and new understandings of ourselves and others. Ivan O’Mahoney’s Go Back to Where You Came From, 2011, follows 6 ordinary Aussies as they are challenged to review their preconceived notions about refugees by embarking on a refugee journey backwards. It is a confronting and provocative 25-day journey for the 6 participants that aims to stimulate new ideas for the participants and the viewer. The late 19th century poem, Invictus is a stanzaic poem of self-discovery which conveys the author, William Ernest Henley’s, personal journey of self-discovery. Henley describes how meaningful discoveries can offer opportunities to change the course of an individual’s life, physically, spiritually or emotionally. These texts examine how the ramifications of individual’s discoveries change
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William Ernest Henley orchestrates his spiritual discovery and its consequence in his poem Invictus. The “Gods” provided Henley with an insurmountable soul, enveloping him with the ability to conquer life’s hardships and struggles, “I thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul”. This allows the audience to understand his appreciation of the ramifications of discovery. His metaphoric reference to the personified “night that covers me” alongside the hyperbole “black as the pit from pole to pole” exaggerates the distinctive suffering that encapsulates his life, as he constantly uses darkness to exemplify the conception of discovery he is not able to understand. This quote is also a reference to his own struggle with tuberculosis of the bone that spread all the way to his feet which luckily only resulted in the amputation of his leg just below the knee. This was the catalyst for Henley’s unexpected discovery whilst writing the poem ‘Invictus’ in his hospital
William Ernest Henley orchestrates his spiritual discovery and its consequence in his poem Invictus. The “Gods” provided Henley with an insurmountable soul, enveloping him with the ability to conquer life’s hardships and struggles, “I thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul”. This allows the audience to understand his appreciation of the ramifications of discovery. His metaphoric reference to the personified “night that covers me” alongside the hyperbole “black as the pit from pole to pole” exaggerates the distinctive suffering that encapsulates his life, as he constantly uses darkness to exemplify the conception of discovery he is not able to understand. This quote is also a reference to his own struggle with tuberculosis of the bone that spread all the way to his feet which luckily only resulted in the amputation of his leg just below the knee. This was the catalyst for Henley’s unexpected discovery whilst writing the poem ‘Invictus’ in his hospital