Changing Perspective Creates Awakening

Changing Perspective Creates Awakening

Change. It is a concept often discussed as being an inevitable part of human life, something people has experienced numerous of times, and will continue to experience throughout their lives. Change comes in many forms and has a range of effects, which are either negative or positive on those who experience it and respond to it. Change, particularly in relation to the topic ÐŽoChanging perspective creates awakeningÐŽ±, is a view that is repeatedly explored and been written in poem/film by thousands of composers.

This is evident in the poems such as ÐŽoSky-HighÐŽ±, ÐŽoDriftersÐŽ±, ÐŽoNo More BoomerangÐŽ± as well as movie, Patch Adam. These texts emphasize changes in their lives through the use of various techniques from alliteration to metaphor, to simile to assonance.

In ÐŽoSky-HighÐŽ±, Hannah Robert, the composer who wrote this poem in 1994, shows the psychological and the physical aspects of change. The original flow of the persona (character) where she recounts her childhood and her adulthood experiences creates a comparison and contrasting image between a child\'s and adult views.

When it said, ÐŽotrees are like spectatorsÐŽ±; this is a child perspective and the metaphor/simile is referring that the childЎЇs ÐŽ®worldЎЇ is lively, animated and fun. The ability to swing on the clothesline also represent the freedom of the child but later when said inability to swing on it anymore, shows us the responsibilities of being an adult and reflects the age. The adult views the world in a more cynical tone. There are ÐŽ®linesЎЇ and ÐŽ®scarsЎЇ on the adultЎЇs hand; these wrinkles give an idea of the experiences people inevitably face. Much like aging is an inevitable for life, so is change. At the end, the imaginative childhood perspective is juxtaposed with her concluding statement: ÐŽ§There are too many things tying me to the groundЎЁ. This demonstrates a clear change in perspective from an instant to an adult, realising a loss of this ÐŽoenthusiasmÐŽ±.

Hannah Robert uses techniques such as alliteration when expressing ÐŽodry and dustyÐŽ± or ÐŽosmooth, sweat dampÐŽ± because the use of letter ÐŽodÐŽ± in ÐŽodry and dampÐŽ± and letter ÐŽosÐŽ± for ÐŽosmooth, sweat dampÐŽ± gives us feeling by just reading it (E.g. ÐŽodry and dampÐŽ±, the letter plosive ÐŽodÐŽ± highlights the dryness while letter ÐŽosÐŽ± in ÐŽosmooth, sweat dampÐŽ± gives us the smoothness.) and assonance when saying ÐŽoSky-highÐŽ± and ÐŽored-berriesÐŽ±. Personification is also used because the story is told so much from childЎЇs perspective.

The poem ÐŽoDriftersÐŽ± written by Bruce Dawe in 1968 conveys the concept of change through language techniques used throughout the text.

Dawe uses descriptive language throughout Drifters, providing the reader with a clearer understanding of the idea of change and how it affects the characters in the text. The quote ÐŽothe kids will yell ÐŽ®Truly?ЎЇ and get wildly excited for no reasonÐŽ± provides the reader with a understanding the attitude the childrenЎЇs mother possesses, when children gets excited for no reason, it shows that they do not yet realize that through change they are leaving something behind and do not yet understand what is really happening in their lives. Another quote ÐŽothe loaded ute bumps down the drive past the blackberry- canes with their last shriveled fruitÐŽ± can be understand as a metaphor. For the life they have left behind nothing and also this quote can also represent the feelings of the mother. It seems she has no interest left in live; she simply does what she is told to do without any passion of enthusiasm for the life.

The passive tone used by Dawe in ÐŽoDriftersÐŽ±