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Slessor uses rhyme to demonstrate the image of Australian as being laid back. Rhyme issued for many effects in this poem including: giving stanzas a flowing feeling, creating pleasurable sound patterns or to reinforce meanings. Slessor uses the consistent rhyme to make the image memorable. Slessor’s emphasis is on the words “sleep” and “deep” to add the “laid back” to the phrase “Verandas baked with musky sleep. Mulberry faces dozing deep.” Slessor uses rhyme to highlight the image of Australian as being relaxed.
Slessor also uses imagery and humor to show the way Australian people have the ability to make fun of themselves. Imagery creates a picture into the readers mind and making it humorous can make the image memorable. Slessor uses imagery and humor to show Australian people have the ability to humiliate themselves in stanza 4 “I’ll think it’s noon at half past four.” Slessor uses imagery and humor to highlight the way Australian people have the ability to make fun of them.
Slessor uses alliteration and collective noun to show the Australian image of the bush being infested with flies. Alliteration can intensify ideas by emphasizing key words and collective noun is used to give a group of items/animals a more describing feeling. Slessor uses alliteration and collective noun to the phrase in stanza 2 “sprayed with the sarcasm of flies.” The image created is that the bush is infested with flies. Slessor uses collective noun and alliteration to show the image of Australian bush as being infested with flies.
This is Part C and D for Country Towns
- Atty
Very good Attison - The analysis is very correct and very precise.
William Street
Author – Kenneth Slessor
Context – William Street is set during 1935 in Sydney, Australia. At this point in time Australia was going through the great depression after the Wall Street crash. Much like the rest of the world poverty was a major factor affecting the majority of people who then had to sell off their possessions in order to gain dinner for the night.
An image of Australia – William Street provides several images of Australia during 1935.
Some of the images presented by Slessor in the poem include:
• A sleazy Australia
• An urbanised Australia
• An Australia that is very low class
How these images are presented/portrayed in William Street –
• The image of a sleazy Australia is portrayed in William Street by Kenneth Slessor through the use of colloquialism. The line “The dips and molls with flip and shiny gaze” refers to the prostitutes and alcoholics on William Street during the depression, selling themselves for whatever little money they can get. Molls was often a word used to describe prostitutes, and dips being short for dipsomaniac, or alcoholics. As prostitutes and alcoholics are often associated with sleaziness, it can be considered that these colloquial terms are representing the whole of Australia.
• The image of an urbanised Australia is shown in William Street in the first stanza when it mentions “The red globes of light, the liquor green, the pulsing arrows and the running fire”.
The use of personification in these two lines helps to emphasise the brightness and size of these neon lights. As these lights are said to be “pulsing” and “running” it gives the idea that these lights are spread out throughout the whole city, lighting everything up. These bright neon signs are generally found in large urbanised cities, thus the image of an urbanised Australia being presented in William Street.
• Another Image presented in William Street is that of a low class Australia. The line “Ghosts’ trousers like the dangle of hung men”. This line suggest that the people of Australia were so desperate for money that they were selling off even their clothes to pawn shops in order to get money.
A simile is used to show how the trousers have begun to be hung from walls and other objects as there is so many of them in the store. As pawn shops are often associated with low class, and poorer people in need of money, this line presents the perfect image of a low class Australia.
Comparison with a related text – In the song Australia by Gyroscope, the line “Its a long way home my crooked friend” is used. This line is used as a link to convicts that settled in Australia. This line too gives off the image of a sleazy Australia. The word “crooked”
suggests that there was something wrong with the people sent to Australia, when most of them were only sent here as they were trying to steal food for their families to eat.
Much like the convicts sent to Australia the prostitutes, were just trying to get money to live off. Both of these images portray Australia as being a sleazy place to live as both convicts and prostitutes present this image.
NORTH COAST TOWN
a) Author is Robert Gray
b) Written in the 60's
c) 3 images are:
- Developing country town in Australia
- The Beach
- Modernised Town
d) Technique: Cultural Allusion -
Gray uses a cultural allusion to portray the county town as a developing one in relation to the major cities of Australia. Gray uses the iconic image of the large, rich and developed city of California that is an image synonymous with America to compare to a developing, slow country down that is depicted in "North Coast Town". "They’re making California pass an Abo" is the quote which shows this. As mentioned before Gray is highlighting the diverse nature of Australia in that being it is not all modern and spectacular.
Technique: Personification -
Gray uses personification to describe the motion of the sand passing by on coastal/country town curbs. This is in combination with a litany in the line before to emphasise how common this occurrence is. As the use of a litany suggests that the event is common it can be concluded that there must be a large source for the sand to be traveling from in order for it to appear every day. The line that depicts this iconic image of Australia is "and stand about. At this curb sand crawls by”. As Beaches such as Bondi and Manly are also icons of Australia Gray is portraying the beach culture of Australia placing particular emphasis on the size of them.
Technique: Contrast -
Gray uses contrast to show how Country towns have developed from their original state and that it is the influence of cities that have caused this. Gray contrasts the once “bulldozed acres” that made up country towns to the “tile-facing and plate-glass” towns they are today. The use of modern architecture techniques such as tile-facing and –plate-glass which are a common item in large cities as compared to the “stucco walls of the pink Tropicana” show that the city did have an influence on the modernization of country towns throughout the sixties. “we pass bulldozed acres. The place is becoming chrome, tile-facing and plate-glass”. In this quote Gray is depicting Australia’s rural community as ever changing and developing.
e) Related Piece of text: (poem) “The Last of His Tribe” by Henry Kendall -
Gray’s image of a developing town is portrayed in a similar way in my piece of related text, the poem “The Last of His Tribe” by Henry Kendall. Kendall uses repetition to describe the loneliness of a tribesman now that his tribe has deserted him. This is similar to the foreign influence’s affect on a country town in that the loss of the mans tribe is symbolic of that of foreign influence and the last tribesman is symbolic of a country town struggling against the foreign influence much like the town depicted in “North Coast Town”. The line in Kendall’s poem that shows this repetition is “Or Think of the loss and loneliness there – or think of the loss and loneliness there”. This poem can relate to foreign influence as the Aborigines, the tribe depicted in the poem, suffered at the hands of foreign influence much like our cities and towns are today.
By Cameron Laundry
Group: Emma, Anita, Cameron.
For each poem you are to:
(a) Author
(b) Context (if known)
(c) Images of Australia (approximately 3)
(d) How these images are presented/portrayed
(e) Comparison of how these images are presented with at least 2 related texts
Summer Rain
(a) John Foulcher
(b) This poem was based in mind 70s Australia. This was a time when colour television was emerging and children were able to play till late, as it was a time of trust and a very community based suburb. It was also a time of increased western influence.
(c)
- Children playing after school
- Families watching TV
- Traffic Jam
(d)
- Only the children stay outside, bruised with dirt and school squeezing the play from the “tattered edges of the afternoon”, using personification in the word “squeezing”
- Teacups of colour from the televisions
- Clutter on the highway like “abacus beads”, use of imagery
- People coming to and from work (this poem again is based in the mid 70s in Australia)
(e) Related Texts
Text 1: Picture of people in pub, watching sport
Text 2: The Castle
Text 1: Repetition of the beer to portray an image of an alcohol based Australian culture
Text 2: Frame shot of family on couch watching TV shows Australian culture
Group: Adam, Adam K, Harry, Alish
Did anybody end up doing Bradmans Last innings?
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