Brief Overview: what is the composer’s purpose?
Atwood’s purpose is to suggest major ideas about life and the world, through the conversation of a parent trying to teach their child basic ideas and eventually more advanced concepts of the world. The poem suggests to its responders that although there are people in the world who are teaching us, even they can never know everything. The main theme or message of the poem is to encourage future children to be able to make their own choices and opinions about the world and be free from influence of the other people around them.
Who would the audience be and why?
You Begin is a poem that is relevant to the lives of all people – particularly though children and parents. For parents who read the poem, …show more content…
A major idea that the poem explores is how discoveries can lead us to ‘new worlds and values and stimulate new ideas’ through the concepts of this world that the narrator attempts to explain to their child. The way in which discoveries may be questioned or challenged or questioned when viewed from different perspectives is another significant concept that Atwood explores in her poem, through lines such as, “this is an O/Or a moon, whichever/You like.” ‘You Begin’ also is suggestive of the capacity for flase discovery of the world referencing in the 5th stanza that the world is round, not …show more content…
are used to explore or highlight the concept?
OR,
What visual techniques including salience, vectors, camera shot sizes, angles, editing techniques, use of colour, symbolism etc. are used to explore or highlight the concept?
Atwood uses a variety of language techniques in her poem ‘You Begin’ in order to highlight the main ideas of discovery that she explores.
The title, ‘You Begin’ straight away implies to the responder the beginning of a journey, hence potential discovery.
The poem, addresses increasingly more significant aspects of life, starting with concepts that may represent a child learning its first words, for example ‘this is your hand’, ‘this is a fish’ and later looking at bigger, less comprehendible concepts like the enormity and hidden aspects of the world, for example the colours that we cannot see.
The repetition of ‘this is’ is used by Atwood to express the mother/child relationship that is central to the poem, also to highlight a mother’s obligation to not only to teach their child, but to encourage curiosity that will lead to their own discoveries of the
Atwood’s purpose is to suggest major ideas about life and the world, through the conversation of a parent trying to teach their child basic ideas and eventually more advanced concepts of the world. The poem suggests to its responders that although there are people in the world who are teaching us, even they can never know everything. The main theme or message of the poem is to encourage future children to be able to make their own choices and opinions about the world and be free from influence of the other people around them.
Who would the audience be and why?
You Begin is a poem that is relevant to the lives of all people – particularly though children and parents. For parents who read the poem, …show more content…
A major idea that the poem explores is how discoveries can lead us to ‘new worlds and values and stimulate new ideas’ through the concepts of this world that the narrator attempts to explain to their child. The way in which discoveries may be questioned or challenged or questioned when viewed from different perspectives is another significant concept that Atwood explores in her poem, through lines such as, “this is an O/Or a moon, whichever/You like.” ‘You Begin’ also is suggestive of the capacity for flase discovery of the world referencing in the 5th stanza that the world is round, not …show more content…
are used to explore or highlight the concept?
OR,
What visual techniques including salience, vectors, camera shot sizes, angles, editing techniques, use of colour, symbolism etc. are used to explore or highlight the concept?
Atwood uses a variety of language techniques in her poem ‘You Begin’ in order to highlight the main ideas of discovery that she explores.
The title, ‘You Begin’ straight away implies to the responder the beginning of a journey, hence potential discovery.
The poem, addresses increasingly more significant aspects of life, starting with concepts that may represent a child learning its first words, for example ‘this is your hand’, ‘this is a fish’ and later looking at bigger, less comprehendible concepts like the enormity and hidden aspects of the world, for example the colours that we cannot see.
The repetition of ‘this is’ is used by Atwood to express the mother/child relationship that is central to the poem, also to highlight a mother’s obligation to not only to teach their child, but to encourage curiosity that will lead to their own discoveries of the