Composers are successful in the manipulation of responders to place them in a position that helps convey their story and its messages that the persona is trying to tell. In ‘North coast town’ and’ Flames and dangling wires’, Gray uses a combination of imagery and similes to relate to the responder therefore easing his task of positioning the reader to experience what he is seeing when he writes. In the poem, Grey is trying warn the responder that society are causing pollution and not noticing it while He is appreciative of the environment, and highly critical of humanity’s exploitation and destruction of the natural world.
Similar to ‘Byron bay: Winter’, Grey successfully explores important issues relating to relationships of man and Nature, …show more content…
He implements metaphor to compare humans to negative objects; this is backed up by his use of structure and punctuation. Not one line in the poem ‘North Coast Town’ is exciting. The sentences almost feel cut short. “A car slows and I chase it”. ‘Two hoods going shooting.’ Through developing tone grey is conveying the violence of humanity from guns and robbery, Robert Gray is able to manipulate the reader’s feel of the poem. He is effective in manipulating the reader’s mood to feel detached from the town, therefore allowing the reader to understand his descriptions of the town turning to California. In flames and dangling wire, Gray is conveying his fear of the world becoming a place like the rubbish dumb by blaming society, he is viewing so through his filling of the poem with pessimistic words he is establishing an almost evil tone, which helps in his description of this hell like place. The use and establishment of tone in Grays poem is an effective tool to manipulate the audience. From the quote ‘ It is the always- burning dump’, the metaphor is comparing the environment into a constant burning wasteland, which allows the responder to create an imaginative tactile imagery so they could imagine the scenery in their mind and reflect on their reaction to what they have done to
Similar to ‘Byron bay: Winter’, Grey successfully explores important issues relating to relationships of man and Nature, …show more content…
He implements metaphor to compare humans to negative objects; this is backed up by his use of structure and punctuation. Not one line in the poem ‘North Coast Town’ is exciting. The sentences almost feel cut short. “A car slows and I chase it”. ‘Two hoods going shooting.’ Through developing tone grey is conveying the violence of humanity from guns and robbery, Robert Gray is able to manipulate the reader’s feel of the poem. He is effective in manipulating the reader’s mood to feel detached from the town, therefore allowing the reader to understand his descriptions of the town turning to California. In flames and dangling wire, Gray is conveying his fear of the world becoming a place like the rubbish dumb by blaming society, he is viewing so through his filling of the poem with pessimistic words he is establishing an almost evil tone, which helps in his description of this hell like place. The use and establishment of tone in Grays poem is an effective tool to manipulate the audience. From the quote ‘ It is the always- burning dump’, the metaphor is comparing the environment into a constant burning wasteland, which allows the responder to create an imaginative tactile imagery so they could imagine the scenery in their mind and reflect on their reaction to what they have done to