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The purpose of the song is to connect Australian citizens to Australia as their home. It is broad enough, meaning that other nationalities can relate to the song and relate the song to their home. However, the main audience of for the text are native, Indigenous Australians and Torres Strait islanders since the song was written in their view. This song can also be an audience for refugees and/or immigrants of any country. Christine Anu is born in Cairns, North Queensland of Torres Strait Island descent, Australia's premier urban-style pop singer. Christine Anu's connection to with her family heritage was the time her father pulled out his guitar, put downward the mats on the veranda of the family home, and encouraged a family sing-along, singing island songs. Her version of Neil Murray's Warumpi Band "My Island Home” the song which has come Anu's trademark was released three months later, as a prelude to the release of the May, 1995, album Styling up. "My Island Home" was the winning 'Song of the Year' at the 1995 APRA Awards 3 and Styling' Up winning an ARIA Award for Best Indigenous Release.

A familial bond cannot be broken. As genetics pass from one end of the family tree to another, a series of exchanged physical and–more significant in terms of the story–behavioral traits, moreover, make themselves apparent. From each member of the complicated maternal chain consisting of three narrators, their behavioral traits and tendencies are easily taken advantage of, along with making them prone to grievous mistakes and overall actions. The topics of betrayal and subsequent neglect are present in an almost unavoidable continuous cycle throughout Michael Dorris’ A Yellow Raft on Blue Water, as each generation of women faced a series of abrupt and unforeseen deceptions by those either in an influential position in their lives or those possessing their trust, leading to damaged and unresolved relationships.

In her late teens, Janie’s grandmother forced her into a marrying a poor farmer named Logan Hillicks, a man she did not love or want to marry. She convinced herself to be devoted to her husband, and tried to form some attachment to him. After 3 months in her lonely and isolated marriage, Janie confronts her Grandmother, Nanny, about her decision to force Janie into marrying Logan. Nanny berates Janie for not appreciating her husband’s generosity and protectiveness, persuading her to stay in the marriage, stating, “ ‘Tai’n’t no use in you cryin’, Janie...Better leave things de way de is. Youse young yet...Wait awhile,baby. Yo’ mind will change,” (Hurston 24). Soon after Janie’s conversation with Nanny, she dies, leaving Janie alone in her marriage. A year after her grandmother’s death, Janie still did not love Logan. And neither did her husband, “Long before the year was up, Janie noticed that her husband had stopped talking in rhymes to her,” (Hurston 26). To Janie, love is

In this slave narrative written about the time Nanny would have grown up in, ships with “countless number of sails moving off to the mighty ocean” were a symbol for freedom which caused Douglass to have an epiphany about the nature of freedom (Douglass, 59). Hurston is using an allusion to this slave narrative not only to connect Nanny back to her life in slavery, but to also demonstrate that through generations the expectations for freedom change so where Nanny (an ex-slave) sees “an ocean with ships” Janie sees “a mud puddle” (Hurston, 89). The puddle is a metaphor for Janie’s expectations to not only marry well, which is Nanny’s expectations for freedom, but to also be happy in marriage. The disconnect and subsequent hatred produced by these different expectations are pointed out intentionally by Hurston to critique blacks’ own relation to slavery and their children, pointing out how even though slavery has passed Nanny still views the world as if she were

Claire Jowitt talked about how The Island Princess focused on the concerned with human difference of nation and religion as well as with color and ethnicity in her essay, “The Island Princess and Race." She’d explored how The Island Princess is related to the Renaissance understanding based on human difference as it focused on the way of how culture is constructed on color, ethnicity, religion and nation are utilized. She’d emphasized on how complex the term of "race" as she backs up with what "race" mean in John Fletcher's time and the definition according to the Oxford English Dictionary. She referred the term "race" had the relation to religion in the island princess. Jowitt wants to show her readers on how Fletcher show the understand of

In the Park is an engaging and eye-opening poem published in early 1960’s. The author of the Poem, Gwen Harwood, is Australian born and is often regarded as one of Australia’s finest poets. Her work is primarily situated on the subject of motherhood. Through her poems, such as In the Park and Suburban Sonnet she shows the hardships and inner struggles that mothers encounter. The underlying message of the poem is showing how a young mother feels as though her children have deprived her of happiness and she regrets the life she has chosen. The theme of motherhood is prevalent in this poem however it shows the alternative side. The dominant view is usually one where the mother shows the purest, undeniable and strong love for her children. Harwood explains the side of motherhood which is not joyous but overwhelming and tiring. Throughout it is made clear that wants to expose the reader to the truth that is often concealed about motherhood.

Janie’s journey sets off when her grandmother, Nanny, insists she marries Logan Killicks, a man twice her age. Because Nanny’s experience with slavery, her worldview has been about financial security for Janie. Like all elders they hope that their children and grandchildren have protection and stability so they can ease. “Tain’t Logan Killicks Ah wants you to have, baby, it’s protection… (Hurston 15)”. With Janie rebellious young age, she does not realize what her grandmother went through. Janie knew she had to obey her grandmother so she can give her Nanny assurance that she would be taken care of before she dies. But not long after the Nanny’s death, Logan Killicks starts to treat her like a “mule” a free work of labor. Because of Janie status she ought to speak for herself.

Angelina Weld Grimké’s, Rachel, portrays an African American family’s experience and development over the course of several years during the segregation era. Act one begins in a domestic setting, introducing the main character, Rachel Loving. Rachel is eighteen, living with her mother, Mrs. Loving, and brother, Tom. Notably, the Loving household is presented as a cheerful and affectionate place, full of laughter and lightheartedness. In a like manner, Rachel emerges as warm and cheerful, yet overall naive; never once questioning the absence of her father and brother, who passed ten years earlier. Initially, Rachel is lively and passionate, bearing a deep infatuation for motherhood and constantly proclaiming her dream to raise a child. Nevertheless,

In the poem ‘Moon’, Kathleen Jamie explores themes of abandonment, loneliness and disconnection. She does this by utilizing a clearly dysfunctional relationship between a mother and child. The child replaces the either mentally or physically absent mother with the presence of the moon. To explore the emotional distance between child and mother, the author uses dark and light imagery to empathize the child’s loneliness and to evoke the scene of a parent visiting they child late at night. Personification of inanimate objects illustrates the detrimental effects the unavailable mother has on the child’s mental wellbeing. The poem ends with dialogue from the protagonist, the child, pointing out that the moon is not her mother, as if to be

In this stylistic analysis of the lost baby poem written by Lucille Clifton I will deal mainly with two aspects of stylistic: derivation and parallelism features present in the poem. However I will first give a general interpretation of the poem to link more easily the stylistic features with the meaning of the poem itself.

Poetry Criticism, volume 140, offers a great explanation of Rita Dove’s poem titled “Day star” by Elizabeth Beaulie. In the former, Beaulie provides a well-developed analysis of Rita Doves complicated, as well multi-facet treatment of the role of a mother in her 2010 essay titled, “opaque with confusion and shame’: maternal ambivalence in Rita Dove’s poetry”. Moreover, Beaulieu is a self-esteemed academician who holds a Ph.D. in twentieth-century literature. Therefore, her work would be incredibly indispensable to the writing of my research essay in which I analyze Rita Dove’s treatment of motherhood in her famous poem titled “Daystar”. Even more, although Beaulie’s analysis of “Daytar” may be short, it is sufficient for my research essay.

“Canadians of Italian descent should look overseas to get a more complete sense of their identities” (Paci 37).

Looking first at “Island Man”, Grace Nichols, the poet, was born in Guyana in 1950, one of seven children. Her father was a headmaster and her mother a piano teacher. When she left school she met Agard and left her Caribbean island in 1977 to go with

In this essay I am going to explain how Clarke explores human relationships through the study of two of her poems. The poems that I will be analysing in detail are Catrin and Baby-sitting. Firstly, both poems have something in common which is they all talk about human relationships in our day to day life. Secondly, they also talk the people love and our feeling towards another child. First poem that I have chosen is an autobiography and the second poem shows us her way of approach to someone else’s child.

In Joyce’s, “Eveline”, most of the story is situated in the mind of the main character, Eveline. Eveline is characterized as passive, easily-influenced, and indecisive. Joyce highlights Eveline’s indecisiveness as she struggles with her immediate predicament; should she leave her abusive father and disobey her duty as a daughter, or pursue a new life with her potential husband Frank, to be free? As she contemplates, readers are taken inside Eveline’s mind to discover factors from her past and present that contribute toward her final decision. While Joyce utilizes rich literary devices including symbolism and dramatic irony, Eveline’s final choice is based on what is repressed in her unconscious mind – her mother’s last words. Eveline’s mother’s last word “Derevuan Seraun” is the deciding factor in which why Eveline chooses stays home.