Discoveries In Kenneth Slessor's The Tempest

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Discoveries are paradoxical, complex and multifaceted. They require a catalyst and extreme or unfamiliar circumstances. In William Shakespeare’s The Tempest the storm is the catalyst, and the island is the anomalous environment providing its inhabitants with an impeccable site for discovery. And address the question. This is also expressed by Kenneth Slessor’s poem Five Visions of Captain Cook where repeat the above addressing. Although it is not guaranteed that all individuals will change, they will certainly however undergo a new way of thinking through the hardships of power struggles and unexpected changes in one’s life.
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Captain home was a crewmember of Captain Cook’s and poem is a about his memories of sea voyage with him and on the island where Cook Died. After his time at sea home became blind and it was because of this he found the ability to use his mind’s eye to accurately describe his explorations. The repetition of “ ” throughout the verse emphasises how even without the sense of sight he is still able to make discoveries “ . The composer uses accumulation of rich vivid imagery throughout the poem to emphasize how discoveries can transform your way of seeing things and again how his discovery of his mind’s eye was all possible due to a catalyst; losing his sense of …show more content…
Slessor reveals this by illustrating how the discovery of the island has only lead the natives. Slessor uses the metaphor “ to describe the natives whose reception of discovery was only puzzling and did not benefit them at all. The natives were the same before and after the discovery of them on their island and Captain Cook’s crew only received hostility from them. The Death of Cook only transformed Cooks crew’s perspective of the