'Kenneth Slessor's poetry is distinctive because of its strong images'. Discuss

Richard Blanco is a Cuban- American poet who was given the oppurunity to write an inaugaration poem for Barack Obama's second swearing-in. He wrote a poem titled "One Today" that praised the good and unique things about the United States and also the everyday people who's daily routines help to make America the proud country that it is.

Frost further points out that the stretch of woods being viewed is very rural. This is made possible by the reference to the location between the woods and frozen lake. In closing the final sentence of the second stanza Frost reiterates the fact that this occurs on “the darkest evening of the year” stating the darkness of the mood.

Country” are two the texts to be compared. Though they share similarities, they too are quite

Good morning everyone, today I will be discussing Kenneth Slessor’s poem, Five Bells in relation to its message about mourning and mortality.

The narrator's vision of her ancestors expanding a plentiful life is emphasized with the picturesque “blue fields…with leaves and vines and orchards.” This then strikes the narrator with the realization that cutting down the tree would be a betrayal to their ancestors, their dreams and the demise of the heritage of the

He fortifies his empathy and admirably clean lines with a gift -- his primary gift -- for...metaphor” (Leithauser). As a result of the prevalent use of metaphor in his works to create imagery, the “difficulties [Kooser’s poems] provoke are experiential rather than textual” (Gioia), making them unique and difficult to fully comprehend, partly due also to their simplicity and the author’s commitment to relative plainness. This gives Kooser a particular individuality amongst modern poets. Kooser’s metaphors manage to get “both sides to work perfectly well together” (Baker), vital to his command over making his figurative language understandable to almost all of his readers, especially to the unbookish ones. His poems almost always have a clear shift, a result of his ability to use figurative language to turn even the most commonplace items into something special: “[Kooser’s poetry] is simple without becoming shallow, striking without going to extremes. He has achieved the most difficult kind of originality. He has transformed the common idiom and experience into fresh and distinctive poetry” (Gioia). Overall, his poetry has been described as “brief, imagistic, and accessible” (Kennedy), an extremely difficult task to accomplish as he maintains the strength of his metaphors and similes.. Kooser’s style is defined by strong use of figurative language to give meaning to other language

The idea of time can also be seen throughout ‘Five bells’ which is considered to be Slessor’s best poem and is one of Australia’s best known works. The poem was written in remembrance of Slessor’s friend Joe and the character he was as well as revealing the effect his death had on Slessor.

With every journey comes a destination which is dependent on the degree of the individual and their will to potentially better themselves. A journey offers travelers the opportunity to extend themselves physically, intellectually and emotionally as they respond to challenges. Ruby Moon by Matt Cameron is a contemporary fractured fairytale in the form of a play that explores the grim, Australian legend of the missing child. This text portrays real issues in an absurd representation which forces the reader on an imaginative journey as well as the characters in an inner journey to establish an identity. Beach Burial by Kenneth Slessor is a distressing elegy about loss of life through war. Slessor’s sophisticated language, allows the responder to empathise and mourn the wastefulness of life in war while also to appreciate the commonality of human existence. This text highlights the concept of journeying of the soul from both the reader and the responder. Through the use of a variety of visual and written techniques, these texts portray the concept of an existential journey, the indefinite search for true self and true personal meaning in life. Deep loss of an individual or one others’ individuality triggers an existential crisis and without journeying imaginatively, the chance to create one’s purpose becomes absent.

This paper will define imagery, metaphors, rhyme and structure and will also discuss the importance of figurative language in poetry and how it communicates to the reader.

Reflections Within is a non-traditional stanzaic poem made up of five stanzas containing thirty-four lines that do not form a specific metrical pattern. Rather it is supported by its thematic structure. Each of the five stanzas vary in the amount of lines that each contain. The first stanza is a sestet containing six lines. The same can be observed of the second stanza. The third stanza contains eight lines or an octave. Stanzas four and five are oddly in that their number of lines which are five and nine.

That everything that is written in that quote is the only things necessary for us to survive and that our lives will be better without all of the extra parts and all of the trumpery. I can’t really say that he is wrong. All of that extra stuff seems to lead to conflict. When you have a nice car, other people want your car and sometimes they will hurt you and steal your car so that they can be happy because they now have that car and now other people will be impressed that they have that car. You want to make more money so that you can buy nice things for yourself because you want to impress others and make yourself feel better from that. When you have a nice house it leads people to want that house and the things in the house and your life will be filled with conflict. You will live more happily knowing that you have only what you need and that the people around you care but will not intrude in the life you live, and that once you find a place where it is possible to get only what you need that you will forever be happy. The body is designed to survive and when you force it to do more than is necessary to survive, it becomes discontented with the way it lives and it requires more to make it happier and that you will have to get more and more until there is nothing left

Review of The Twenty-four Hour Mind: The Role of Sleep and Dreaming in Our Emotional Lives by Rosalind Cartwright 224 pages Oxford University Press, USA; * edition (June 24, 2010)

   In response to Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, I have just one question. Why all the similes? There isn't a single page in the novel that doesn't display this annoying literary device. Everything is "like this" or "like that." It never ends! Similar to decoding a secret message that isn't difficult to understand, but nevertheless tiring due to the overwhelming amount of messages, the novel is frustrating to read. The following analysis acknowledges Chandler's creativity in developing his main character, Philip Marlowe, with his usage of simile. However, the excessive style of the novel creates a dominating force that ultimately leaves the reader unfulfilled at the end.

He tells of when he first realized this when he was getting his son in bed. He realized that bedtime/storytime wasn’t relaxing like it should be. He was trying to rush through it and it ended up just stressing people out and taxing relationships. As he did research he realized that slowing down helps you because you’ll think things through and figure things out that have been “put on the back burner” in your mind. Furthermore, you’ll still get things done, but it won’t be an overload. You’ll be actually living instead of just hurrying through life since rushing through things takes a toll on every aspect of your life (health, relationships, etc.). This interested me because I really liked the point that he made that you’ll actually live life and be happy instead of rush through it when you slow down, take time to think, and focus on the most important things instead of trying to do

In Module 9 on the topic of Sleep and Dreams, was an interesting topic that was discussed in class as many people normally question why and how we dream. There isn’t a specific reason in how dreams are functioned but there are different interpretations and stereotypes that people think have meanings and others that don’t.