An individual's perception of belonging is closely related to their interactions with others and the world around them, and depending on their experiences, may enrich or limit their sense of belonging. This notion is portrayed in Peter Skrzynecki's poem, "10 Mary Street" (1975), through the family's ability to build and form a connection to their cultural heritage in a new country. However, in his poem "Migrant Hostel" (1975), the migrants' inability to relate to their physical and social environment due to their lack of empowerment results in their limited perception of belonging. A similar notion is presented in Paul Keating's "Redfern Speech" (1992) which explores the negative interactions between the government on Indigenous Australians. Ultimately, each composer has used a variety of techniques to demonstrate the integral role of interactions in establishing one's sense of belonging. The ability to adapt to new environments can allow them to form strong connections and relationships with others. In Skrzynecki's poem, "10 Mary Street," the family's ability to connect with the culture and spirituality of Poland has allowed them to establish a long-lasting sense of belonging to the house. The parent's attachment to the garden is conveyed through the simile "tendered roses and camellias like adopted children " which compares the positive quality of their home life to the humdrum" nature of their work, the colloquial language contrasting their lack of interest at work to their devotion at home. The family's relationships with each other and connection to Poland is present when "photos and letters, heated discussions and embracing gestures " are cumulatively listed, to establish that while they reside in Australia, they are still connected to their culture. Their connection to their heritage is furthered through their consumption of Polish foods such as "kielbasa" and "salt herrings," the symbolism revealing the interactions that brings them together due to their traditions.
Ideas are the feeble perceptions of the mind. ... Yet sometimes poetry enhance the way humanity perceives the world. Thoughts can be just as dramatic as perceptions. ... We can use our imaginations and develop an object without ever seeing it's influence. Among ideas, those that do return a considerable degree of quality of the original impressions belong to memory, while other ideas belong to imagination. ...
(The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, p. 258) Comment on the value of reading Blake's poetry through this proposition and support your argument with at least two poems. Suspended between the neoclassicism of the eighteenth century and the early phases of Romanticism, William Blake belongs to no single poetic age. ... Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience juxtapose a child's innocent perception against an adults corrupted and repressed perception, despite the conditions of the period. ... Only through our partially cleansed doors of the twenty-first century do we recognise th...
For each one of us is to one day shed our physical existence but that does not mark the end of our journeys. It is rather the end of one phase of our existence for the beginning of another. Such is the optimistic perception that is reflected in Jibanananda Das's "Before Dying". ... The poet uses Indian words like "dhundul trees" and "akanda" reflecting his sense of belonging to his country, his passion for his land and the beauty that he observes and appreciates in each of its existing phenomena. ... When the poet mentions the "crows coming home expectantly" he is probably making a r...
IN his definition, aesthetics is a way of studying perception, knowledge is from senses, and distinct from knowledge derived by processes of mutation. ... These fine arts including the "painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, and music as distinct from thos4e arts called decorative or so. ... And that "art doesn't belong to private language but is partly of community language and tied to into the social conventions regulating this language." ... It doesn't work because it had to do with the perceive our eyes and our way of seeing believing which is emotionally liable varies on ...
Where in Plato there was a "quarrel between poetry and philosophy", by Aristotle's scheme poetry is more philosophic even than history (a chronicle of "real" events). ... By accessing the universal, mimesis – and hence poetry – provides access to the "real", the forces that lie behind our very lives. ... In Book II of The Republic, Plato begins a discussion of poetry which is concerned with gods and heroes. ... Such poetry, then, is lies and may be an imitation, but it is not an imitation of any truth and therefore must be condemned. ... And lat...
We must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life." (2) One can see why the tradition of reading Emerson's nature writing and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast...
It is indisputable that as readers of any type of literary work, we will take our own individual meaning of a text which is likely to differ significantly from another's interpretation. ... The unconventional subject matter of the sonnet reflects Paterson's statement in terms of the argument that the "eye of the beholder" is referring to the poet's individual perception of sonnet writing, as whilst the melancholic tone of this poem implies an inaccurate representation of what a love poem is to the reader. To the poet it is just that as it is a true representation of "real" love ...
They put forward the concept of "defamiliarization", to make objects unfamiliar, to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged.... There is mysterious time of the evocator and the evocated in poetry. ... So his criticism belongs to affective criticism. ... In his classicism poetry, he emphasizes universal, in contrast with romanticism which emphasizes the individual. ... So literary tradition, such as poems, belong to other texts. ...
Conceits attempt to capture elusive insights into the nature of human experience, which are partly feelings and partly intellectual perceptions. ... Poetry There is an incredible scope of range, intensity an ingenuity in s poetry, as he struggles between the spiritual and bodily impulses of man. ... In s poetry we find passion juxtaposed with intellect. ... Imagery in s poetry is not something -tacked on to make it more -poetic and difficult, but it is a focus for seeing experiences in a particular light, and therefore controlling our way of feeling about them. ... Donne belonged to th...