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DOBSON QUOTES Flashcards

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Young Girl at Window 1/5

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“Lift your hand to the window latch: sighing turn and move away”

  • apostrophe/imperative
  • Contrast idea of being open to change
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Young Girl at a Window 2/5

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“Since time was killed and now lies dead…or time was lost”

  • personification of death
  • preposition ‘since’
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Young Girl at a Window 3/5

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“Over the gently-turning hills, travel a journey with your eyes”

  • allusion to her journey
  • Hills metaphor of adversity
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Young Girl at a Window 4/5

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“The guiltless minute hand stood still”

  • personification
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Young Girl at a Window 5/5

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“Through grass and sheaves and, lastly snow”

  • Tricolon symbol of 3 stages of life
  • time is inevitable
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Over the Hill 1/5

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“This workman dredges home at dusk”

  • explicit omission of ‘workman’
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Over the Hill 2/5

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“Bluntly forward boots”

  • Oxymoron
  • cacophony
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Over the Hill 3/5

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“He crests the hill and fills the sky”

  • Hyperbole ‘filling sky’
  • Calm rhythm: blank verse structure
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Over the Hill 5/5

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“He could move mountains if he cared”

“or lifts one, looks at it…turns it and puts it down”

  • biblical imagery
  • allusion to ability to achieve but content with life
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Over the Hill 4/5

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“He stands to light his pipe with quite unconscious insolence”

  • Polysyllabic ‘unconscious’/’insolence’ - shift to complex syllables emphasise rebel against presence of death
  • cognitive dissonance symbol of rejection to change
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Summer’s End 1/5

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“after the summer season with the miraculous cleansing of waters”

  • ‘cleansing’ connotations to new cycle
  • ‘after’ preposition establishes poem as one of reflection
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Summer’s end 2/5

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“the children screaming at the water’s edge”

  • negative elements of memory and transition into new phase
  • collective experience of change in season being abrupt, like the transition into adulthood
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Summer’s End 3/5

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“the lonely mermaid…weeps at the edge of the water where the sand is like knives to her feet”

  • mythological allusion - connecting persona to deeper experience of shared grief
  • simile/negative connotation - inability to relive past experiences
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Summer’s end 4/5

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“blackberries burnt on the fire with an autumn savour of sadness…I was a child again”

  • vivid visual imagery
  • sibilance ‘s’ to emphasises reflection
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Summers’s end 5/5

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“dreaming by the fire I called myself, watching for a child to run back through Time to a picnic”

  • alludes to idea that memories create comfort, but they must not be a substitute for the future and individuals moving forward
  • nature of piece as a reflection
  • capitalisation of ‘Time’ - personification
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The conversation 1/5

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“He punched into his cap. meaning. this is a morning!”

  • interjection of dialogue
  • appreciation of nature and the beauty around you as you age
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The conversation 2/5

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“the wind will comb and spin and night will wind it in”

  • metaphor for ageing - future becoming present and past dying out
  • girl reaching a level of content
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The conversation 3/5

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“over the hills lay China and both of us should go”

  • intertextuality of prior poem - imagery on experiences of life
  • hyperbole ‘China’ metaphor for expanding reach and meeting new people
  • Inclusive language rhyme couplet ‘both of us should go’
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The conversation 4/5

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“having such talks as only children and fools may try”

  • irony - ‘fool’ and ‘child’ able to communicate complexity without words
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The conversation 5/5

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“that excellent old madman wordless and wise, and I”

  • ‘that’ pronoun allusion to death
  • irony
  • juxtaposition suggesting that age = wisdom
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Cock Crow 1/6

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“wanting to be myself, alone, between the lit house and the town”

  • first person imperative
  • juxtaposition
  • caesura - pause/break in verse
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Cock Crow 2/6

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“three times I took that lonely stretch”

  • biblical allusion (peter denying christ 3x)
  • attempted to move on from commitments
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Cock Crow 3/6

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“the night absolved me of my bonds, only my footsteps held the ground”

  • personification of night as freedom
  • she is not completely able to move on
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Cock Crow 4/6

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“one life behind and one before and I that stood between”

  • symbol of stages/thresholds of life
  • metaphor past present future
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Cock Crow 5/6

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“and walking up and down the road knew myself…cut off from human cries and love that grows about the bone”

  • paradox and contrast of walking and knew myself - somewhat ironic
  • enlightening moment of reflection
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Cock Crow 6/6

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“I heard the cock crow on the hill…thinking I knew his meaning well”

  • understanding of Peter’s betrayal to Jesus and the tension between societal responsibility and our personal needs
  • repetition of betrayal and her brief experiences of freedom
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Amy Caroline 1/5

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“my grandmother, living to be ninety”

  • possessive pronoun - powerful opening line establishing it as anecdotal
  • room for romanticisation of events
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Amy caroline 2/5

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“held her head on one side like a sparrow, had a bird’s bright eyes”

  • zoomorphic simile - symbol of freedom and intelligence
  • rediscovery of connection to nature as she ages
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Amy caroline 3/5

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“this was done she said in Bendigo and Eaglehawk”

  • justification need to express kindness
  • allusion to personality and control society has in pressuring women to act a certain way
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Amy caroline 4/5

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“at twilight at the meditative hour…she liked to strum the songs learnt long ago”

  • metaphor of night as her escape and freedom away from her expectations and role
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Amy Caroline 5/5

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“she had eight children, little money, many griefs”

  • asyndeton - rhythmic sense of normality disallowing her true feelings as those defined by hardship
  • alludes to low SES position
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Canberra Morning 1/5

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“morning: such long shadows like low bellied cats creep under parked cars”

  • ominous opening
  • juxtaposing positive connotations associated with morning
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Canberra morning 2/5

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“at the bus stop a flock of starlings”

  • zoomorphism of children
  • metaphor for children being loud and obnoxious
  • observation a symbol of generational disconnect
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Canberra morning 3/5

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“the driver’s got a book by Sartre in his pocket, he wears dark glasses, listens moodily to the top forty”

  • symbol of his mysterious nature or desire to escape from current position
  • irony of him being originally perceived as intelligent juxtaposed with music taste
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Canberra morning 4/5

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“life gets better as i grow older”

  • manipulating perspective to understand others
  • external observations provide sense of enlightenment to individual and deeper understanding of self
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Canberra morning 5/5

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“not giving a damn and looking slantwise at everyone’s morning”

  • emphasis on introspective nature of composer as observing of individuals to better understanding
  • ‘not giving a damn’ use of colloquial language to indicate loss of euphemism and conclusion of her poetry
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Dobson contextual ideas

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  • born in Sydney, heavily influenced by rural surroundings
  • later work influenced by motherhood
  • wrote experimental poetry post WWII “a heightened sense of awareness of being alive”
  • exploration of the need to embrace change instead of rejecting it
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Young girl Form and themes

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  • structure in 3 sestets (stanza with 6 lines)
  • regular rhyme scheme and rhythm - evoking ongoing march of time
  • Horatian ode: regular structure, using contemplative personal ideas
  • conflict
  • change
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Over the Hill form and themes

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  • one 18 line structure (uninterrupted) - mimicking the continuation of life
  • iambic tetrameter - 8 syllables every one is stressed and mimicking of worker dredging home
  • blank verse rhyme adhering to conversational and collective nature
  • old age
  • hardship
  • change
  • death
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Summer’s end themes form

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  • numbering to segregate stanzas - inability for individuals to leave behind phase of life
  • 2 part structure showing juxtaposition between changes that accompany summer and the inability to accept conclusion of life.
  • memory, reminiscent
  • happiness
  • transition to next stages of life
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The conversation form and themes

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  • rigid structure in four stanzas of sextains - emphasising the wisdom of conversations that are had at older age
  • separating each of the stanzas on the man’s perspective, then narrator and then both
  • wisdom
  • experience
  • resilience
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Cock Crow form and themes

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  • iambic tetrameter constraining the protagonist and strengthening her reasoning for not fully being able to move forward
  • gender roles
  • escape
  • freedom
  • isolation
  • responsibility
  • motherhood
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Amy Caroline themes and form

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  • free verse, conversational reflective tone
  • motherhood
  • kindness
  • nature
  • simplicity of past lives
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Canberra morning themes and form

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  • observational poetry - commenting on landscape and small events
  • observation
  • reflection
  • understanding/re-evaluating
  • contentment

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