How has your understanding of the world been broadened by the study of discovery?
Discovery evokes new ideas and knowledge, capable of transforming and renewing our understanding of the world. The individual obtains this renewed perception of the world via the metaphysical voyages that are made alongside the physical journey taking place. Rosemary Dobson’s Young Girl at a Window and Cockcrow explore an individual’s spiritual metamorphosis; this notion is reinforced in Adrienne Rich’s Diving into the Wreck (1973).
Due to its confronting nature, the individual’s psyche is clouded with doubt during the provocative process of discovery, in which sacrifices must be made. Our understandings are broadened upon the epiphanies which the persona makes. …show more content…
The persona is depicted in the liminal space, unable to decide between the two locations – where the house and town are metonymic of conformity and personal growth respectively. The “bridge” is symbolic of the threshold which the persona must cross. The biblical allusion to the Denial of Peter and anaphora – “Three times” connotes deliberation and contemplation, manifesting the persona’s indecisiveness and conflicting desires: filial duties vs. desire for free expression. The persona’s uncertainty is emphasised by the paradoxical visual imagery of, “Only my footsteps held the grown” suggesting that although her physical body is present, her mind is elsewhere. Once again, Dobson employs liminal spaces – “One life behind and one before” to juxtapose the decisions the persona must make. The tautological remark “separate and alone” in which ‘separate’ symbolises psychological isolation, whereas ‘alone’ symbolises physical isolation, ultimately captures the persona’s angst. The epiphany is marked by the exclamation “Too brief illusion!” and auditory imagery of “I heard the cock crow on the hill” which symbolises a new day. In the end, the persona chooses to not cross the threshold and instead “turned the handle of the door”. Nevertheless, the low modality of “Thinking I knew his meaning well” connotes uncertainty, reaffirming the notion of doubt during the process of discovery. Dobson ultimately highlights how the persona’s new understandings can broaden our comprehension of the
Discovery evokes new ideas and knowledge, capable of transforming and renewing our understanding of the world. The individual obtains this renewed perception of the world via the metaphysical voyages that are made alongside the physical journey taking place. Rosemary Dobson’s Young Girl at a Window and Cockcrow explore an individual’s spiritual metamorphosis; this notion is reinforced in Adrienne Rich’s Diving into the Wreck (1973).
Due to its confronting nature, the individual’s psyche is clouded with doubt during the provocative process of discovery, in which sacrifices must be made. Our understandings are broadened upon the epiphanies which the persona makes. …show more content…
The persona is depicted in the liminal space, unable to decide between the two locations – where the house and town are metonymic of conformity and personal growth respectively. The “bridge” is symbolic of the threshold which the persona must cross. The biblical allusion to the Denial of Peter and anaphora – “Three times” connotes deliberation and contemplation, manifesting the persona’s indecisiveness and conflicting desires: filial duties vs. desire for free expression. The persona’s uncertainty is emphasised by the paradoxical visual imagery of, “Only my footsteps held the grown” suggesting that although her physical body is present, her mind is elsewhere. Once again, Dobson employs liminal spaces – “One life behind and one before” to juxtapose the decisions the persona must make. The tautological remark “separate and alone” in which ‘separate’ symbolises psychological isolation, whereas ‘alone’ symbolises physical isolation, ultimately captures the persona’s angst. The epiphany is marked by the exclamation “Too brief illusion!” and auditory imagery of “I heard the cock crow on the hill” which symbolises a new day. In the end, the persona chooses to not cross the threshold and instead “turned the handle of the door”. Nevertheless, the low modality of “Thinking I knew his meaning well” connotes uncertainty, reaffirming the notion of doubt during the process of discovery. Dobson ultimately highlights how the persona’s new understandings can broaden our comprehension of the