Last August Hours Before The Year 2000 Summary

Among the various structural and thematic elements, Debora Greger’s “West of Myself” provides a sense of nostalgia and reminiscence of the past. The poem illustrates how life and memory are not so easily remembered or taken. The speaker of the poem is dramatizing her inner conflict and chastising herself for the direction her life has taken and where she believes it will befall. The compelling force for the creation of the work might have been to express memories of living a life and reflection, looking at life from hindsight. The poem reveals where she once thought the right way in life was to go and where she now thinks the right way would have been.

Poetic techniques displayed through the ideas, poetic features and style of the poet, reveal concepts which transcend time and place. In Gwen Harwood’s poem “the violets” her ability to interweave past and present emphasises the importance of memory in preserving ones journey though the universal experiences of growth, maturity and mortality. Similarly the poem “Mother who gave me life” demonstrates the memory of motherhood as a timeless quintessential part of the human condition. And lastly In Harwood’s “father and Child”, the connection between the father and son/daughter highlights that transformation throughout childhood is inevitable. Through the content and the language, the ways in which human experiences reveal concepts which

Dawn revisited is a poem about the new ideas one could have in life and how it is easy to start again if things don’t go too well, as the poem starts with ‘imagine you wake up with a second chance’ which automatically introduces the topic to the reader. The poem is laid-out in a way that – especially ‘hawks his pretty wares’ - gives us an unimaginable image of the beauty of dawn, a description that would want people to manage their time in order to see it. The poet states ‘if you don’t look back the future never happens’ which shows us that one could only learn by making mistakes and that she perhaps learnt from experience and does not want people to miss out on the beauty of nature just like she might have done previously. She suggests

In the poem The Past, Oodgeroo, establishes the importance of growth, identity and the strong link between culture, values and beliefs. It is through this poem that advocates for change in mindsets, while positioning the audience to come to the realisation of the unfortunate events in which had occurred, however, it is through her strong belief and pride in her culture does she promote unity. “let no-one say the past is dead… the past is all about us and within” Through this quote, it personifies history, allowing the audience to gain a deeper insight to values

The image presented is a visual representation of Gwen Harwood’s poem ‘The Violets’. The poem creates the imagery of an adult reflecting on the days they were a child; expressing their yearn to be a child again and their distress at how quickly time goes. Youth, passing of time, memory, life, and death are recurring themes of this poem which are presented through the narrator’s reminiscence of their childhood, and through the motif of a violet. Harwood uses a range of poetry techniques in her poems, and these techniques help convey the different themes and concepts of the poem. The images incorporated in the visual representation were purposely selected to help depict these different themes and concepts. The visual representation works to display Harwood’s poetry style and context through the representation of her poem ‘The Violets.’

The poem "Clocks and Lovers" by W. H. Auden’s contrasts the idea of whether or not love will outlast time. Initially, the poem portrays a lover affirming the belief that love will triumph over time. The poem transitions and depicts the clocks' argument that due to time, love will eventually fade away. The narrator contrasts the two arguments with usage of imagery, personification, tone and diction. The argument that love will prevail over time is contrasted by the belief that as time goes by, time can never be stopped and love will not last. Overall, neither belief is represented as correct because the narrator contrasts the two opposing arguments by displaying that two arguments are incompatible. In regards to their following arguments, time is not as malicious or arduous to love but love is not impervious to time.

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” Even we live in the moment. It’s also a scene of crossings, bridging past and present. People struggle ahead but often obsess themselves with the past and present.

He uses this in the poem to give it rhythm to engage the reader and

The poem highlights the beauty and sensuality of nature. He uses the theme of nature to explore the pleasure he feels whilst taking in the sights and smells of nature. Montague uses broad vowel sounds to create assonance in the first stanza. This creates euphony and a sort of verbal music, possibly representing the noise of the river and the theme of nature.

The poet gives the picture of the tension between the Aboriginal and western worlds, the aboriginal life left behind and new sad civilized life. There is a sense of

The irritation and despair of Esther Belin’s Night Travel flows with the fearless attitude of Laura Da’s Vantage. Both poems are different, but yet similar. They both come from similar backgrounds, however they have different style and topics they focus on. Night Travel relates to real life because people are being influenced by society one way or another. The message is important to be proud of who you are, and to not let western society change you. Laura Da’s Vantage relates to women who are pregnant and are eager to meet their child. Both poems are alike in content, but differ in

The main concept in Li’s essay is her relationship with time and how it relates to different personalities. In the beginning of her essay, Li describes to us her fascination with the “before” and “after” concept saying “The certainty in that pronouncement-for each unfortunate of inconvenient situation, there is a solution to make it no longer be-both attracts and perplexes me”(Li 109). Finding a solution to every problem fascinates Li. Incorporating this

The title suggests to the reader that the poem will be about a major event in history but instead the author talks about how two photographs at the same beach are completely different. The beach is not different because the beach has changed but because people have. There is a parallel reference to ‘flowered hips’(3,16) that reminds us of past discrimination and imposed poverty The content of the poem would suggest that time moves progressively forward. However, the structure of the poem and in particular Trethewey’s use of resonance suggests otherwise. Time is referential here, gauged in relation to a moment that did and did not change

Love makes people become selfish, but it is also makes the world greater. In this poem, the world that the speaker lives and loves is not limited in “my North, my South, my East and West / my working week and my Sunday rest” (9-10), it spreads to “My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song (11). The poem’s imagery dominates most of the third stanza giving readers an image of a peaceful world in which everything is in order. However, the last sentence of the stanza is the decisive element. This element not only destroys the inner world of the speaker, but it also sends out the message that love or life is mortal.

While writing the poem the speaker stresses some the good figurative language and images to express his vision and how he want the isolation of his people to come to an end. When he stated “Tomorrow”