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A mediation for you to try. This is a recoding of the mediation we did last week. I hope you find it useful.
Perspectives of Belonging
Is a sense of belonging influenced by gender? Explain your response with reference to specific examples. You may like to refer to the Germaine Greer article, ‘Rogue Males’ (Sunday Life 21st Nov 2010).
Belonging
Consider Hitler’s lament regarding Belonging:
” the concept was far more complex than I anticipated. Why didn’t I develop more insight into the topic? HOW are ideas represented in each text?
What do you understand by the concept of belonging? Why do you think it’s been chosen for the HSC? From what you know about HSC English, what do you think you’ll have to do to succeed in the module ?
Mental Cases
How are the shocking symptoms of mental torment conveyed in both the poem ‘Mental Cases’ and the attached clip? In your answer identify the poem’s language techniques AND the film techniques (i.e shot type, close-ups, sound techniques etc).
Disabled
After reading Disabled, poet Robert Graves described Owen as a ‘damn fine’ but very ‘careless’ poet. Yet it is perhaps the poem’s loosely organised structure and many irregularities that gives the poem its raw energy.
Explore some of the ways Owen conveys the grossly unfair consequences of war in Disabled. In your answer refer to the attached original footage of young, male casualties.
The truth of war – Dulce Et Decorum Est
How is the ‘truth’ of war conveyed through this clip?
What techniques does the composer use? Why do you think he chose a popular song from the era?
Compare the composer’s techniques with Owen’s use of graphic imagery and language to challenge perceptions of war.
Consider, for example, how Owen directly challenges homefront propaganda by reverting to the personal, 2nd person address in the final stanza, (i.e. if you could hear, if you too could pace…)
Representations of Futility
If you were a composer, what images and sounds would you use to convey ideas and feelings in the poem Futility?
In your answer you may wish to consider:
- The poet’s language choices
- Metaphors
- Connotative language
Anthem for Doomed Youth – Images and Sounds
Watch the clip.
Compare the techniques used by the composer to those used by Owen in his poem, ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’. You may like to consider;
i. the composer’s use of original photographs to convey a sense of wasted (or doomed) youth.
ii. the emotions conveyed in the tone of the narrators voice
iii. the sound effects and music
iv Owen’s use of techniques such as, onomatopoeia, alliteration, rhyme, metaphor, personification and repetition.
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