Essay One: Robert Gray and Related Text
Quote & Technique
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Explanation & link to discovery
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B1: CT (1)
Late Ferry
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Quote:
“I’ll lose sight of the ferry soon...”
“Like tasting honeycomb | Filled as it is with its yellow light.”
Technique:
MOMENT OF REALISATION / REFLECTION
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Link to Rubric:
Discoveries can be fresh and intensely meaningful in ways that may be emotional, creative, intellectual, physical and spiritual
Simile: Ferry again seems small and difficult to place, diminutive, almost lose in the darkness.
Use of colour: two possibilities. Yellow associated with sun and light (positive). Or, diminished brightness. Not quite white, pristine, clear.
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B2: CT (1)
Late Ferry
Theme(s):
stable/unable
hot/cold
light/dark
big/small
Dynamic opposition
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Quote:
“The boat is small as a moth | wandering through the projector’s beam.”
Technique:
Quote:
“... I stay to watch | … the huge, dark harbour,”
Technique:
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Link to Rubric:
It can involve rediscovering something that has been lost, forgotten or concealed
Simile: delicate, fragile, slight in appearance. It seems almost irrelevant to the action. Yet, it is what the speaker notices.
Symbolism: drawn to the light of the city; glitter and sparkle. However, it also suggests threat as this often leads to destruction.
Connotation/symbolism: mysterious, threatening, ominous
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B3: CT (2)
Flames and Dangling Wire
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Quote:
“How can he avoid a hatred of man?”
Technique:
Quote:
“... he seems that demon with the long barge pole.”
Technique:
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Link to Rubric:
Discoveries can be confronting and provocative
Imagery: hell, smoke, fire → sense of doom and damnation
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B4: CT (2)
Flames and Dangling Wire
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Quote:
“... mirage of the city”.
Technique:
Quote:
“I realise I am in the future.”
Technique:
EPIPHANY = dump of human waste
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Link to Rubric:
Discovery can encompass the experience of discovering something for the first time.
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B5: R
Luke’s Way of Looking
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Quote:
- “For the first time in his life, Luke felt at home.”
- “He felt as if he had entered a whole new world.”
Technique:
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Link to Rubric:
Discoveries can lead us to new worlds and values, stimulate new ideas, and enable us to speculate about future possibilities.
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B6: R
Luke’s Way of Looking
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Quote:
- “Luke didn’t know. So he said nothing.”
- “Mr. Barraclough didn’t know what to say | so he said nothing.”
Technique:
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Link to Rubric:
The impact of these discoveries can be far-reaching and transformative for the individual and for the broader society
Repetition: not knowing what to say and saying nothing symbolises the change and growth within the characters → transformative
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NOTES ON OTHER POEMS:
POEM
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MAIN POINT(S)
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QUOTE(S)
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LINK(S)
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Journey, the North Coast
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- Journey
- Sense of self
- Connection to nature and place
- The value of nature
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- “The bright crockery days”
- “I’ll leave my hair ruffled a bit.”
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- … may differ for individuals and their worlds
- … rediscovering something that has been lost, forgotten or concealed
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The Meatworks
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- Rural poverty
- The harsh reality of a meatworks
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- “... you found, around the nails, there was still blood.”
- “The way those pigs stuck there, clinging onto each other...”
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- … confronting and provocative
- … offer new understandings, renewed perceptions
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North Coast Town
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- Discarding history / tradition to make way for the new
- The repercussions of progress
- Artificiality
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- “… plastic …”
- “We pass bulldozed acres … they’re making California.”
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- … sudden, unexpected or provocative
- … may be questioned or challenged when viewed from different perspectives
- … confronting and provocative
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Diptych
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- The impact of family conflicts on children
- How the death of a key figure affects an individual
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- “And I’d come by then to see that we all inhabit panthos.” = reflective tone
- “Felt I needn’t think of anything more to say.” = gaining new understanding, acceptance & forgiveness
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- … rediscovering something that has been lost, forgotten or concealed
- … sudden, unexpected or provocative
- … confronting
- … stimulate new ideas
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c. Madison F, 2017
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