Half Yearly Distinctively visual is language that is used to help the reader visualise what the author is trying to create. The language techniques help to give visualisation too. Certain elements are used to help create a distinctive and effective visual impact in Maestro written by Peter Goldsworthy and in the poem island Man by Grace Nichols. These text explore isolation and the human condition on characters. Peter Goldsworthy uses important elements to create a distinctive and effective visual impact in his novel Maestro. Isolation is a theme used and shown through Characters.
In the initial description of Keller, Goldsworthy creates a character full of conflicting ideas and hidden identity. He is described as an old drunk with weathered skin but then Goldsworthy makes note of his “suit: white linen, freshly pressed” this helps to show that there is more to Keller than at first. While his face shows a man full of experiences his suit suggests a formal manner. Goldsworthy uses the structure of his paragraphs to convey more meaning. His constant use of descriptive language fills in the picture he is creating. “The eyes: an old man’s moist, wobbling jellies”.
This helps the reader to visualise the character Goldsworthy is trying to create. This conflicting character is used to explore isolation as a common aspect of the human condition. The two opposite sides of Keller’s nature is reflective of his self- appointed isolation and his strive to separate himself from his past. His isolation from others is shown through the symbolism of the fact that “in the entire town perhaps only the wooden slats of Edward Kellers bedroom remained closed. ” His attempt to separate himself from his past is shown through his alcoholism and current location in Darwin compared to his past residency in Vienna.
The Essay on Tempest Character Analysis
William Shakespeare's last play The Tempest is a story about Prospero (the rightful duke of Milan). He is betrayed by his brother Antonio and left on a ship with his daughter Miranda to die. Only things are not going according to plan and Prospero and Miranda arrive on an island. Prospero is seeking his revenge. Coming back from a wedding in Africa a ship containing Prosperos enemies is attacked ...
Drinking is symbolic of guilt and grief. “I looked across at him, the tortured, booze- ruined face”. This emotive and colloquial language is used to show how alcohol represents Keller’s escape from the world and his attempt to escape from his guilt. The guilt is visually etched on his face, ‘booze-ruined’ and ‘tortured’. In maestro written by Peter Goldsworthy there are many elements used to help create a distinctive and effective visual impact. Isolation has been used throughout the novel through characters and setting. Edward Keller’s home in Darwin ‘the swan’ is the place he chooses to isolate himself from the world around him. the swan was a monastery, of a kind: a place of retreat, of renunciation of the world”. This is a religious metaphor and is used to show how Paul recognised how Keller treated it as sacred by the little amount of people allowed to enter, only students and because of the amount of time Keller. Keller felt safe here. The swan was his escape from his past in Vienna, the escape of feeling guilt and grief because of the loss of his family. The poem island man by Grace Nichols is a highly visual description of a man living in London with strong memories and dreams of his previous life on a Caribbean island.
The poem begins with the concept of the man slowly coming out of his dream of the Caribbean island he used to live on. The verb “wombing” implies he is safe, secure, nurtured under his blanket of dreams of his home. His isolation in a busy world and the want to be back in his old habitat. This contrasts to Keller’s world as he was trying to escape his past life and start again but the persona in the poem wants to leave their current life and go back to the past, to the feeling of a place he can belong. His island is seen through the use of vivid colour. Of a small emerald island” the word emerald used as a metaphor to present the Caribbean island as precious and rare. He was happier where he used to be compared to where he is now. This is later contrasted with the dullness of his London residency. Those vivid colours are replaced with “grey metallic” and “dull North Circular”. It gives negative connotations that relate to London. Vienna, in Keller’s past life also has negative connotations related to it as that was where Keller lost his family in the Holocaust, that is where Keller’s life ‘ended’.
The Essay on Life Is a Dream
Historical background: Spain was united after the Moorish occupation (711-1400s). However, it also left Spain as a cultural powerhouse in Europe which was still largely medieval in 15th century. Spanish philosophers and scholars exerted strong influence and their craftsmen were well known across Europe. Ferdinand and Isabella united Spain and by 1492 expelled the Moors entirely form the country. ...
The alliteration of “sound of blue surf.. wild sea birds… sun surfacing” allows the reader to understand the reality of his dreams of home, it gives specific examples. Nichols use of repetition of “groggily” and “muffling” which reminds the reader that the persona is returning from his dream, and is being pulled back to the reality of his London existence. The juxtaposition of the two habitats, the two extremes of the London living to the Caribbean island is similar to Keller’s life in Darwin and his past life in Vienna.
The person in the poem makes it clear that the memories of his previous life he will never forget and does not want to forgot, while in Maestro Keller is trying to forget those past memories by forcing himself into isolation. Conclusion: Distinctively visual is used to help the reader visualise the image the composer is trying to create. Maestro written by Peter Goldsworthy and Island man written by Grace Nichols both use distinctly visual language and by doing this they also explore the theme of isolation through characters and setting.
