Unfamiliar Texts - Limestone and We are the Tenants

Limestone -

Explain how contrasts of ideas are important in the passage. Give details from the text to support our answer.

We are the tenants -

With close reference to the text, discuss the poet's use of imagery to describe the North.

Limestone

In the prose Limestone by Fiona Farrell, which is prose about a girl called Clare going on a journey home to New Zealand. The author describes how New Zealand is the ideal place to be but as she goes on, she starts to develope the contrast in here ideas. In the third paragraph the author uses the technique of diction to show the contrast between the lands of what she thinks New Zealand is and the reality of what has happened to that image. The author uses adjectives in the sentence "primeval beaches scattered with driftwood, and dark forests, and plains burned to a tawny hide in late summer." She describes New Zealand such words as "primeval, dark, tawny" to which makes you think this is a paradise. However, she then goes on to say "That dream she knows to be corrupted by reality: the beach is already threatened by subdivision and the tres with clear-felling, and the tawny plains are bordered by the dry beds of intricate vanished trees." The words such as "threatened, clear-felling, vanished" all give us a negative connotation that allows us to understand how that land is now under threat of never becoming what it once was. This strong contrast of ideas in how she wants New Zealand to be a paradise but in reality the land which she had so much hope in is now corrupted by the madness of human progression. This idea shows how where ever human beings have decided to colonize the beautiful land that has once been there will soon to not exist. This is all seen currently as have issues such as global warming, species becoming endangered, and mass pollution found in our oceans. All these issues are caused by all caused by the greed of human beings and if we don't do anything about it, our once beautiful earth will seize to exist. In the first paragraph, the writer uses words such as "pristine, forested, legendary, and beautiful" to describe the scenery up at 30,000 feet. However, the writer then goes and use words like "clutter, rusted, spills, quarrelsome" to show the destruction that humans have done to the place we call home. The words describing the scenery from 30,000 feet above gives us a positive connotation and allows us to understand how wonderful our world is looking at it afar. In contrast, she then uses words such as "rusted, spills, quarrelsome, and clutter" which gives us a negative connotation which shows us the impacts we as humans have done to this planet if we took a closer look at our planet and question the ways we've been doing things.  

We are the tenants

In the poem "We are the tenants" by Kapka Kassabova, she uses imagery to describe the North as an unpleasant place. Kassabova uses words such as  

Compare and contrast the attitude to departure and arrival presented in each text. Give details from the texts to support your answer.

Practice Unfamiliar Texts "Lament"

By close reference to the text, analyse how the writer uses techniques to narrate the poem’s story in the italicised text.

In the poem “Lament”, the writer Glenn Colquhoun uses many techniques to narrate his poem's story in italicised sections of the poem. Colquhoun uses techniques such as repetition and similes to describe the sad journey of this story of someone called buck that unfortunately passes away. Colquhoun uses repetition throughout the poem to say “Buck has gone out fishing.” This allows us to understand that Buck is most likely a fisherman and since it’s repeated at the very start of the italicised text is to emphasise that Buck has gone out into the wider ocean. As this is similar to the quote “Sail on Sailor” which is mostly used for someone who has passed on or has left that life behind. This repetition of “Buck has gone out fishing” allows us to understand that Buck was probably someone that was very close to the poet and that they have passed and that the writer has a very strong memory of him going out to sea. This allows the readers to sympathize with the writer that someone close to him, that their story has most likely come to an end. This is similar to how in our own very lives if someone close has passed away we want to remember the times that we spent with them. 

Alongside repetition, Colquhoun also uses similes to narrate the poem’s story in the italicised text. Colquhoun uses the technique of simile to compare the boat capsizing to a dog getting its belly scratched as he says “The tide rolls over like a dog with its belly being scratched”. Colquhoun used this to describe the very last moments of Buck's life as he and his boat is swallowed by the rough waves of the ocean. Colquhoun further says “The salt catches in my eyes” this is a poet describing the tears that dripped from his eyes as he hears the news that Buck has passed on. Another simile is used in the last italicized sentence saying “Seagulls flock like angels in the distance waiting for a catch”. This is used to describe how Buck has passed onto the next life and is now in heaven, as the poet is comparing seagulls that are found at sea to angels that are found in heaven. These all combine to narrate the poet’s story showing how Buck passed away. This allows the audience to understand that Buck was a nice person and to see that they have passed away is very painful to the poet. But the reference to angels allows us to understand that the poet has faith that Buck is now in a better place.

Compare & Contrast - Kubrick and Luhrmann

Stanley Kubrick’s film style is quiet raw that usually includes iconic horror imagery mixed with incisive political messages (Ferrari, 2019). This usually involves him using slow camera movements to create intensity within his scenes. This can be seen within the film The Shining directed by Stanley Kubrick where there is an Overlook POV shot that stalking Danny through the empty hallways. (Dunham, 2019).

English Level 3 Character Strengths

Character Strengths

Curiosity

What are you most curious about? Were you a curious child and adolescent?
How things work in the universe. I have always been curious even when I was a child and adolescent.How has your curiosity been affected growing up? If it has changed over time, why is that?
Just like when I was little, I would always be asking question about everything happening and I would just annoy the hell out of everyone around me.

How does curiosity play out across the different domains of your life – family, socializing, work, school?

Curiosity plays a big role in my school life as I am constantly questioning the things that I do and the work I receive, which is the way I love learning. The same thing goes for socializing, with the terms I don't understand my friends find me questioning them, asking what they are.

Love of Learning

What areas of learning (factual knowledge, people, skills, philosophy, or spirituality) do you find most interesting? What areas of learning do you find least interesting?
The area's I enjoy most is within learning new skills and learning about factual knowledge. As normally I would find myself on youtube just watching video's on how to do stuff and just watching random videos about stuff. The area I hate learning in is religious ideas as I believe in no religion.

What is it that you love about learning?The idea that there is an endless amount of things you can learn.

How does the breadth and depth of your knowledge affect your relationships, from people recently met to people who are close to you?

The knowledge I have limits to the friends I have. I find it a lot easier to engage them if they share the 

same knowledge that I do, this limits me to the friends as I find it hard to befriend people who are much different to me

Teamwork

What is most gratifying to you about being part of a team?

Winning as a team, and that it's a team effort whereas doing things solo is boring.

How do you feel and act when you carry more than your fair share of the weight for a team?
I feel fine as I'm used to doing the majority of the works, I just enjoy doing the work as I like to keep busy instead of doing nothing.

How does teamwork extend into your personal life; for example, parenting, family, partner, friendship?

Places I show teamwork most is within my friendships at school, this is most likely I can connect with them easier. I find it hard to have teamwork with my family as is unable to understand me.

Poetry Language Features

Metonymy - the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant
e.g “Hollywood” is not simply a place in Southern California; it is a metonymy for the film industry.
e.g “The golden arches” is a metonymy for McDonald's.
Enjambment - the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.
e.g "The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity;" Wordsworth, "Beauteous Evening"
e.g "A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing." Keats, "Endymion"
Allegory - a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
e.g The Tortoise and the Hare from Aesop’s Fables: From this story, we learn that the strong and steady win the race.
e.g Yertle the Turtle by Dr Seuss: This story about a turtle who yearns for too much power is actually an allegory about Adolf Hitler and the evils of totalitarianism.

The Lifestyle Creed

The Lifestyle Creed

What Does Creed Mean?

A system of religious belief; a faith. The other time I've seen creed used through the movie Creed and through the game Assasin Creed.

Oleocanthal: Oleocanthal is the compound that causes the burning sensation at the back of your throat when you consume extra-virgin olive oil.

Catholic Nicene Creed is a Catholic poem is a prayer. It is similar to the lifestyle creed as it uses similar words such as begotten, almighty, virgin, salvation. The poem lifestyle creed is similar to Catholic Nicene Creed as some of the words are replaced. The lifestyle creed is about how food is everything to us and Catholic Nicene Creed is about religion.

The author cuts up the texts and joins them together to help us understand that she is trying to contrast the 2 texts that she cut the words from. We can group these 2 texts by the fonts as they are both different. We know that shes contrasting the ideas of religion to ideas of nutrition.
The author uses the different fonts as she didn't type the poem up instead she got the words from different texts. She does this so that she can contrast the 2 texts. One of the texts represents religion and the other represents nutrition.

She uses words like brain boosters, antioxidants and good cholesterol to contrast the ideas of nutrients to religion.

The purpose of the poem is to compare ideas of religion to nutrients and health ideas.

The poem has a dissonant tone.

The last two lines suggest that the resurrection of good cholesterol  

Children Of Me Discussion