Creative Blog #1: A Landscape

( Creative/ Critical )Try to describe a landscape using language that shows that you love every aspect of it, drawing on all your senses. In contrast try now to describe the same landscape using language that shows you hate every inch of what you experience. Think about the texture of the words you use in each situation. The crisp breeze […]

Critical Blog #1: Poem that meant most to me.

Blog Topic Choice: Of all the poems we have looked at in the last two weeks (either in lectures or tutorials) which struck home most forcibly for you? why? Give a short synopsis of what it was about the poem that touched your thoughts and/or feelings. It may seem like I did not put much […]

Week 3: That Dead Man Dance

Where does the speaker “lose” herself? When she is reconnected with her land Why is “Blak” misspelt? To represent our lack of understanding of their culture. Jargon perhaps, challenging European structures, Explain how the punctuation supports what is being described in the lines: Intimidating the opportunity to hear and remember. It’s like shes remembering herself. […]

Week 2: Writing By and About Indigenous Australians

◊ My Notes & Casual Thoughts During The Lecture & Tutorial ◊ John Glover: My house and Garden, 1840: Is a romanticized painting featuring his house and garden that contained English flora in a specific, neat, order. Contrasted against Australia’s natural bush. Drysdale’s “The Rainmaker’ is a dramatic shift in attitudes, as it was not […]

Week 1: The Mountain Has It’s Own Meaning.

In Michael Griffith’s blog for Week 1, the following questions were asked of us: What is our attitude to the Australian landscape? Is it utilitarian and appropriative? Or is it open to how the landscape might be able to bring us to a new understanding of itself and of ourselves. Perhaps they were hypothetical- but for […]