Journey
Flames
Byron Bay
Harbour
Description
100
What is this poem about
A persona journey on a train coming home and reconnecting with nature after spending one year in urbanisiation
100
Where is the poem set
In a dump/landfill
100
What season is it
Winterrrr!!!!!!!
100
What time of day is it and where?
Sydney, noon/sunset
100
Where is the persona walking
Through a hinterland of a eucalyptus forest on the east coast of Australia, in Victoria or New South Wales.
200
What type of form does this poem have
- No stanza breaks
- free verse structure
- lines of irregular length
200
what animals are mentioned in the poem
waterbird and turtle
200
Where did Robert Gray grow up?
Coffs Harbour
200
What is fruit box bright comparison to?
The sky
200
Describe the form
- 11 stanzas,
- Four lines for each (quatrains)
- Each stanza makes a vignette/image of the walk
300
name one concept found in this poem
- immersion with the natural world
- there is sublime in the ordinary
- The transience of life
300
Name concepts of this poem
- Impacts of humanity on the environment
- Commercialism and consumerism in large cities
- The degradation of the environment
300
what is the techniques in this quote "the sun brings perfect warmth"
- Hyperbolic description of 'perfect'
- Metaphor
- Tactile imagery
- Biblical imagery
300
Who came wandering through an empty park?
"she and i"
300
What is the Currawong symbolic of ?
Freedom
400
what does calico infer
'Calico' infers purity - describing the setting as untainted and overwhelmingly natural.
400
What technique is used in ..."The smell is huge, blasting the mouth dry"
Synesthesia
400
what letter of alliteration is used in the final parts of the poem
W
400
What are the sails of the yachts compared to in harbour dusk?
Quills
400
What does Gray mean when he compares "Angry as a burned insect, a distant car"
The simile compares the traffic of cars to the frustrations that a wounded insect would feel.
emphasises the damage that a highly industrialised life compared to tranquil surrounds of the forest.
500
finish this quote " where logs are fallen, and......
blackened tree trunks.
500
True or false "the horse laughs" is a quote in this poem
True
500
what is this intertextual reference called
Mont Sainte-Victoire c.1895 – Paul Cézanne
500
What is the impact of this quote on the audience " They seemed to whisper, slipping amongst each other"
The momentary stability and peace are
juxtaposed to the personified imagery
of the other yachts who "whisper,
slipping amongst each other", which
conveys how quietly accepting
humanity is of their own dissatisfaction
and despondency amidst their daily
lives (non-attentive)
500
What is a cuneiform and what is it compared to/impact?
A cuneiform is ancient writing. It is compared to the vastness of the bush reinforcing how the bush is a constant presence of the lives of all who pass through it.