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Comparing Train Journey And Panetta's 'Orford Ness'

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When the landscape is presented by composers in an evocative manner, an individual is able to view the land in a different perspective in relation to how it represents people and landscape. In Judith Wright’s Flame-tree in a Quarry, the poem comments on the destruction of the landscape due to the need for industrial progress and resources, making the audience to question the relationship of the people and the land, developing the concept of life and death. Whereas in Wright’s poem Train Journey, it reflects the feelings of being disconnected from nature, revealing the audiences perspective of the landscape as being the roots that they must accept in order to define themselves, in which is seen through a liberating and transformative experience …show more content…

Panetta’s podcast Robert MacFarlane in Orford Ness shows the minimalistic nature of the landscape and comparing it to the experiences that are felt by the people. The diegetic sounds of clashing waves and bird callings enhance the listener’s own interpretation of England’s north coast. By exploring how their own image of the landscape that is formed in their minds by the background music, Panetta is able to have a dramatic effect of making them feel relaxed or uncomfortable. This sensory image of Orford Ness being disconnected from the world, lonely and isolated, helps to place the listener in a landscape that is different to their usual setting of feeling at home and full of warmth. Robert MacFarlane conveys his feelings towards the landscape, when he establishes that “trying to force the landscape into order, compelling it to yield, will turn out to be a cul-de-sac”. By describing the end point of the landscape to be a “cul-de-sac”, MacFarlane reinforces that by trying to take control of the land for the humanity reasons, the nature itself will only end up being destroyed. MacFarlane is able to illustrate that by letting the landscape suggest its own text and metaphors, the responders are able to explore the different aspects that can be seen. The long pauses between the transitions of the scene in the podcast makes the listener to appreciate what was employed about Orford Ness, and how each story behind the land such as the area being the first atomic bomb tester for England can create the feelings of being lost and damage. The ending helps tie the entire audio together by having a strong and direct tone of voice to narrate the poem, to convey feelings of superiority, as well as by using a female voice to narrate the poem, it makes a connection between motherhood and the landscape. Thus, Francesca Panetta is able to

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