Question 1
A.D Hope’s Australia and Martin Harrison’s Australia encapsulate the paradoxical connotations of place and nation between both poets in underlying the true meaning of what place and nation mean in settler society.
Hope’s Australia as Harrison states paints a “cartographic eye” overhead the monotonous landscape described almost through an omniscient fashion. The poem thematically works around ideas of exile and home, through the nostalgic tone of returning to Eurocentric views connected back to the mother land that Australia has implicitly been linked to for many years as Hope narrates “where second hand European’s pullulate” . Hope’s sense of permanent exile contests with the idea of Australia that is home within the text by…show more content… Harkin’s Genocide exemplifies the colonial beliefs of Prime Minister John Howard, ironically a public figure and head of state that neglects the “conclusion of the Bringing them Home report” a report that implicates the attempted ethnic cleansing and essentially genocide of the Indigenous First Australians. In essence, Harkin embodies Stephen Muecke’s framing technique whereby Howard’s political statement highlights that to Prime Minister Howard the context behind the ethnic cleansing of the Indigenous people is not included thus rendering Muecke’s idea that what you include in the frame then starts to become very significant because what you leave out of it has no authority. Harkin a “Narungga woman from South Australia” uses implicitly chilling motifs of words within the poem such as ‘arsenic’ and ‘flour’ in support of the second archive derived from the Adelaide Chronicle. Harkin ironically uses the chilling motifs of both the arsenic and flour by poisoning Howard with the neglect he imposed upon the children within the Bringing them Home report “sweet dreams John Howard…may your bread be arsenic free may your children be tucked in safe”…show more content… Mallarme’s innovative use of poetic form by spreading words out onto the page especially within A throw of the dice implicitly produces the sensation of reader writer experience. Mallarme’s poems emits the notion of allowing the reader to decode what they feel. The symbolic expression and free verse fragmentary encapsulate the modernist movement whereby the poet mirrors the rhythm and ordinary speech of the given movement. Mallarme’s symbolist innovations suggest an “interest in the associated powers of the human imagination and senses…as Rimbaud states the purpose of art was not to represent reality but to access greater truths by the systematic derangement of the senses” which is similar to what Nelson encapsulates in Wittenoom whereby the reader is drawn to the text as it draws the attention of the human imagination and senses due to the altered poetic
