English Paper 1 Flashcards
Give Examples of Human Experince
Emotions
- Sadness
- Greif
- Angry
Thoughts
- Questions
- Puzzleness
- Regret
Conflict
Love and freindship
Death and grief
What is an anomaly
Something that deviates from what is standared, normal or expected
What is a paradox
A figure of speech that seems to contridict itslef, but contains some reason of truth behind it. e.g save money by saving it
what is an inconsistencies
The fact of containing some ideas, statements, areguments that do not agree with others.
What are the two Poems for kenneth Slessor
- Gulliver
- Wild Grapes
What is Gulliver about? what is the human expeirnce
A dramatic monologue, expression of fustration and despair. In terms of human experince, Gulliver becomes the symbol of the ties that imprison the human body, the limits of the body and the fustration the persona has for it
Main Human experince showed through this poem is
- Fustration
- Helplessness
- lack of Control
How is Gulliver an individual or collective expeirence
Individual
- Can be individual, because it is ones body and mind. And it is the singular personas ideas about the human body
Collective
- Collective can also be experienced because every human has their own body, so everyone is experincing the same physical challenges.
How is anomilies, paradoxies and inconsistincies shown throughout the poem
Anomilies and inconsistencies
- Sence of Nihilisim
Paradoxies
- Gulliver is unable to move but all his threats are about movement
- At the end the narrator wants to kill himself, but in doing so will kill his consiousness.
What are the Quotes for Gulliver
“Hundred ropes of nerve and bone” - Metaphor
- A reference to Gulliver being tied down by the tiny people in the book Gulliver travels
- Is a clear way of saying that we are prisoneirs of tiny versions of ourselves, in our minds that make us obssess over our insecurities.
“For Gods Sake, call the hangman” - Symbolism
- The paradoxical question is answered with this in reference to the only freedom from the pains of the human expeirence is death
What the living fuck is wild Grapes about
Describing the memoirs of a loved one with great reference to an old orchard.
What is the human experince being showed
Fustration
Loss
Helplessness
Despair
Individual or collective experince
- both. Personal, through the singular persons memory of isebella, it is his thoughts and memoirs of her. He also makes refernce to a specific orchard
- collective. through everyone feeling loss at some point in their lives. And the people will always have memories of the loved one with them.
Any anomilies, paradoxies and inconsistencies
Anomilies= The Grapes are being described as misplaced like the girl herself.
Paradoxicals = “Harsh sweetness” - A gentleness which is simultainesly groting
Inconsistencies = The inconsistesies of life
“Kissed here, killed here”
Ant technquies at all love? for wild grapes
“Harsh Sweetness” - Oxymoron and paradoxical imagery.
- IT captures the personas feelings of the girl, how sweet to remeber but harsh in the reality that she is no longer there. Also makes refernce to the grapes
“Kissed here, or killed here” - Juxtiposition
- Makes the audience understand how could something be so different become so blurred. Conveys the inconsistencies of life.
what is my other related Text
Happiness by Steve Cutts