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The nature of discovery is highly impactful when one is confronted with multiple worlds; enabling a physical and spiritual connection to places, ideals and society, transforming one’s perception over-time. Australian poet Robert Gray‘s ‘The Meatworks’, confronts an individual’s beliefs to influence their standpoint on a desensitized society. ‘Journey, North Coast’ introduces the idea that re-awakened realities emancipate one’s connection of the natural world. and Director Daniel Sousa’s ‘Feral’ explores into how being taken into an unfamiliar reality leads to discovering one’s natural world. It is within these poems that uncover the highly impactful nature of discovery.

Significant discoveries have the ability to generate far reaching and transformative impacts which catalyse renewed perceptions of the self, others and the world. However, in order for these impacts to happen, individuals and readers must be willing to reflect on certain discoveries, which is seen in Robert Gray’s poems The Meatworks and North Coast Town and Nam Le’s The Boat. This notion is explored through; firstly, provocative and confronting external experiences facilitate transformed perceptions of the self others and the world. Secondly, that there can be far reaching ramifications when individuals uncover the falsehoods and truths of the past.

The process of discovery is a profoundly meaningful experience which involves moving into unknown realms, whilst re-evaluating what is known. Discoveries occur in a multifaceted fashion as part of a re-consideration of experiences and values, generating new perspectives of ourselves and our world. Rosemary Dobson’s poetry and unseen position us to recognise the significance of time, change and its confronting challenges. Dobson’s “Young Girl at a Window” explores the persona’s inner struggle to overcome her fears about transitioning into adulthood, evoking contemplation on time and life’s vicissitudes. Similarly “Ghost Town: New England” delves into confronting discoveries about the transience of life, making us reconsider the temporal nature

The process of discovery refers to the perception created upon experiencing the unfamiliar and redefining what is familiar. Discovery can be achieved through unexpected means or deliberate expeditionary, whether it be tangible or a fragment of our thoughts/imagination/emotions. Poems ‘The Tiger’ and ‘Young Girl At A Window’ by Rosemary Dobson and poem ‘Invictus’ by William Ernest Henley thoroughly explore this concept via their ideology of human nature and its effect on discovery.

Self-discovery is often accompanied by internal metacognitive dialogue due to its ability to allow individuals to re-evaluate their outlook on life and develop a better understanding of the world. Frost’s ‘Stopping by Woods’, his 1922 lyric poem provides a pre-eminent example of an internal monologue. Use of first person present tense language allows for the reader to relish the quiet splendour of the dark woods and ponder, if only for a moment, the allure of escaping indefinitely from the exhausting world of people and promises. The confronting and emotionally significant discovery of the persona’s morbid attraction to oblivion is conveyed through the furtive tone in the first stanza “He will not see me stopping here/ to watch this wood fill up with snow” suggesting a feeling of delight that may be associated with the deep, dark woods. Potent connotations of the words ‘dark’,

The use of symbolism and imagery is beautifully orchestrated in a magnificent dance of emotion that is resonated throughout the poem. The two main ideas that are keen to resurface are that of personal growth and freedom. Furthermore, at first glimpse this can be seen as a simple poem about a women’s struggle with her counterpart. However, this meaning can be interpreted more profoundly than just the causality of a bad relationship.

New values and understandings obtained from discovery provide a significant catalyst for an individual’s transformation; elucidating their renewed perceptions of the human condition. Evoked by curiosity, Rosemary Dobson’s elegiac poems Young Girl at a Window and Cockcrow explore an individual’s spiritual metamorphosis; this effect is reinforced in Adrienne Rich’s feminist poem Diving into the Wreck.

The discoveries we make can come as a result of questioning society and the world around us. Conversely, discoveries can also be the catalyst for us questioning our world and society. These discoveries, while sometimes uncomfortable, are what allow us to develop as people, through the consideration of new values, and revelations of different perspectives. Robert Frost explores this in his 1914 poem Mending Wall, where the persona makes spiritual and intellectual discoveries, causing the questioning of traditions, societal barriers, and human relationships. The first person structure and natural imagery in Mending Wall trigger the persona, and audience alike to explore and question elements of their own society, leading to intriguing ideas

Robert Frost’s poetic techniques serve as his own “momentary stay against confusion,” or as a buffer against mortality and meaninglessness in several different ways; in the next few examples, I intend to prove this. Firstly, however, a little information about Robert Frost and his works must be provided in order to understand some references and information given.

The desire to discover something can be the effect of the human condition or metaphysical with the idea of emotions causing transformation of perspectives of oneself and the world. In Frost’s poem “Mending Wall”, a contemplation regarding the repairing of a wall between a persona and their neighbour reveals that they hold conflicting views about the necessity of a wall. It is shown that the persona disapproves the mending of the wall through the personification of apple trees. The persona uses it as a logical example of the futile nature of having fences for fruit trees; thus, the composer challenges not just the neighbour but also the audience to speculate the reasons for having a fence. A bitter clash of opinions is unveiled when the persona

Amy is having difficulty with depression as well. She is unable to move to the last stage of grief, acceptance, until then she will be stuck in the same stage, reliving the same emotions over and over until she is able to cope with the feelings that were aroused

Consequently, this picturesque poetic device helped communicate the theme of lost love by helping the reader associate the personas’ thoughts and beliefs with their own.

Robert Frost said many times throughout his life that all men share a common bond. In his poem “The Tuft of Flowers” he analyzes the potential of such a bond, in first person. Frost turns an everyday common job, into discovering a common bond with another laborer. The author uses a comparison between aloneness with a sense of understanding to demonstrate his theme of unity between two men. In another one of Frost’s poems “Birches” he imagines walking through the woods looking at all the trees, and seeing the top bending towards the ground. When he sees this he imagines they are bending from kids swinging on them, rather then what is really happening to them. It can be analyzed that Frost had a very definitive appreciation for nature, and a very broad imagination.

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words,” Robert Frost once said. As is made fairly obvious by this quote, Frost was an adroit thinker. It seems like he spent much of his life thinking about the little things. He often pondered the meaning and symbolism of things he found in nature. Many readers find Robert Frost’s poems to be straightforward, yet his work contains deeper layers of complexity beneath the surface. These deeper layers of complexity can be clearly seen in his poems “ The Road Not Taken”, “Fire and Ice”, and “Birches”.

In both texts, moments of rediscovery catalysed by personal encounters allow for the reassessment of initial discoveries, whereupon they are understood more profoundly.