It is evident that author Tony Birch, has presented a range of concepts in his poem collection – Broken Teeth – that not only draws attention to “Melbourne’s past”, but also “revives” it. In other terms, Birch not only presents personal accounts of the lives of the Aboriginal people after the British colonization, but he has also demonstrated the present-day city – from the perspective of the traditional landowners of Australia. By comparing and contrasting Melbourne’s past with its present, through creating structure and by consistently drawing attention to William Barack; Birch’s poem collection, manages to deliver an impressive perspective – built upon the history and progress – of the City of Melbourne.…
Her usage of strong words in the last three stanzas, such as deplore, suggest that Dickinson is very emotional when it comes to deeper ideas such as death and change. The overall tone of this poem has to do with facing the sad and disheartening reality of life and that death is the inevitable end for us…
Q. 1 Write about 3 lines for each of the following about the significance for Indigenous Land Rights in Australia: (a) “Terra nullius” Terra Nullius means that land without. When Captain Cook and his crew was in Australia , they decided the land was Terra Nullius. They acknowledge Indigenous people because of their primitive life. The High Court's Mabo judgement overturned the Terra Nullius fiction in 1982. (b) Protective legislation…
Columbia: U of Missouri, 2008. Print. Patrick J. Keane discusses the impact religion had on Emily Dickinson’s daily life. Regardless of how much Dickinson spaced herself between the outside world, she still felt the sting and sometimes comfort of organized religion and it is evident through her poetry. Many important topics were of discussion in Keane’s book such as the images of God that Dickinson portrayed, the evolution of science and its effect on religion and society, and Dickinson’s personal interpretation of religion.…
Literature has proved to have very skewed opinions of death and the journey after. In some cases, writers portray a journey that is filled with coldness, regret, and sadness and in others, writers create a sense of warmth, reflection, and gratitude. Emily Dickinson chooses the later when she wrote the story that would later be titled “Because I could not stop for Death”, a story that depicts the journey that Death takes the speaker on towards the afterlife and immortality. From the very first line of the poem, readers understand that the poem is about death. The speaker notes how though she could not stop for Death, “He kindly stopped for me” (2).…
My mind was going numb.” These lines resemble a dullness to the way the funeral is playing out. The way her “mind was going numb” represents the dullness occurring at the funeral and the way that everybody may be saying the same thing over and over again “beating” at the subject of death. Dickinson references the coffin being lifted away when she says, “And then I heard them lift a box/And creak across my soul.” These lines represent Dickinson’s imagination bringing her into a dead body within a coffin while also simultaneously relating the coffin to the creaking and old nature of the soul.…
There is a relationship between her and God. This allows the practice of a pure religion, which brings more happiness and blissfulness in religion and life. In “Some keep the Sabbath going to Church,” Dickinson explains the various ways religion is vocalized, and she gives her opinion. Emerson said that it is metre-making argument that makes a poem and the poet has a new thought to unfold and share with others that make men richer in their fortune. Dickinson was a nonconformist that believed in self-reliance, nature, and living a simple life – traits of a transcendentalist.…
Imagine an infinite universe, or a cell so minute that the human eye cannot see it; or even not existing at all. It's more difficult than it might seem. As humankind progressed so do our minds but just how far does that comprehension stretch. Emily Dickinson contemplates this in quite a few of her poems. She views human understanding as an infinite and miraculous opportunity; yet it is also so infantile and Immature.…
Gary Snyder’s “Axe Handles,” is a short poem, it gives a description of a small domestic story in which it extends into a meditation on parenting, a transmission of cultural knowledge, and the actual importance of old fashion wisdom to ordinary, everyday life. Mediate parenting was the actual intention that author, Gary Snyder, tend to accomplish. The poet (who speaks the poem), tells about teaching his son Kai, on an April afternoon, how to throw a hatchet so deftly that it will lodge into a stump. Kai remembers having seen a hatchet-head stored in “the shop,” and goes to get it. He “wants it for his own.”…
In the first stanza, Dickinson writes “No rack can torture me/My soul’s at liberty” (“No Rack” 1–2). She is saying that she cannot be tortured because she has a soul, her true self, and nothing can ever touch it. Furthermore, “You cannot prick with saw,/Nor rend with scymitar” (No Rack” 5–6). These lines refer to Dickinson’s soul. They say that no weapon, not even a saw or scimitar, can do the slightest damage to it.…
The poem has a romantic sensibility in the way that madness and sense are qualified. The poem states “Much Madness is divinest Sense -- / To a discerning Eye -- / Much Sense – the starkest Madness --/ ‘Tis the Majority,” (Citation). In these lines, Dickinson means that to someone who cares to look closely what on the surface seems to be madness often is the truth, or sense, in its purest form. It takes a clever person to be able to pick out the truth from what seems like madness, but to the majority of people – those who must be gradually exposed to the truth – sense so pure must surely be madness. Then the poem is split by the line “In this, as All, prevail--” (Citation), this line unites the beginning with the end of the poem which is both very similar in their points, but this line is ambiguous.…
People are to focusing on what others around them will say that don’t focus on themselves. Therefore, people could relate to the poem that Dickinson wrote in a very emotional time of her life that shape a new…
Her poems about death confront it’s from reality with honesty, humor, curiosity, and above all a refusal to be comforted” (Baym 1659). Dickinson uses simplistic language to express complex ideas. She writes about life, death and afterlife and uses these topics to get across complex ideas, but does so in a simple way by using simple language. Emily Dickinson was raised in a Calvinist household, where she and her family attended many religious meetings and most of the family’s friends were religious as well (Wolff 4). Readers can tell by Dickinson’s poems on death and afterlife she had an eternal struggle with her belief in God, and what happens to a person after death.…
If Dickinson was certain that the afterlife would be waiting for her, why would she be so preoccupied with death? Dickinson, like all humans, had a bit of doubt laced with her unwavering views on the afterlife. Her fear translated into beautiful poetry expounding on death and eternity. In “Because I could not stop for Death”, Dickinson begins by thinking of Death as a companion, but ends the poem with vulnerability and fear. As the life cycle continues in front of her—children playing, grain growing, the sun setting—she is trapped in a carriage with only Death and the notion of immortality.…
What is it to feel pain? How would one elucidate even an iota of the purest forms of fear: the oozing infection that hides in the anticipation, experience and remembrance of pain? I cannot use the narrow confinements of linguistic tools to fully portray it, unless in the crudest of manners. Even such fundamental tools are incapable of creating an adequate point of reference. It simply lacks the nutrients to effectively satiate the imagination enough to analogues to reality.…