Is their change in belonging ? (1 Viewer)

[carpenters1]

I have an essay question and it seems ridiculous i don't understand it at all

"Change has the greateast Influence on how individuals perceive belonging"
Discuss this statement with reference to how composers explore this concept in their texts. Refer to your prescribed text (Skryznecki poems) and at least on other of your choice.

The poems i have to choose from are from immigrant chronicle and im pretty sure none of them talk about change.

Please someone prove me wrong

 

[Ostentatious]

I'm not familiar with your texts, but things you could look out for are change in attire and attitudes as ostracism/promotions occur amoung groups. As you mentioned you are doing poems, you could try to find changes in language techniques such as rhythm or imagery in any change from the original state(s) of belonging.

 

[Nicola1616]

I think that it's saying that belonging can seem like an unconscious entitlement that we don't seem to have need to question until some sort of change occurs in our lives that causes us to reflect upon the degree to which we fit in, belong. In Skryznecki's poetry there is of course their immigrant status which is an enormous change which shatters their comfortable, easy sense of belonging and they are forced to weigh daily the degree to which they belong or don't. But I think the change can also be very small - like putting on a private school uniform and boarding the bus for school with all of your immigrant community feeling like 'a tourist'. The immigrant thing is to a degree resolved by his father, see 'Felix Skryznecki' who manages to navigate the changes in his life and contain them within the perimeter of his own garden and thereby find that easy peace again - but his son continues to be haunted by the change the family made because he feels his ghostly heritage still calling to him, see 'Ancestors'. I think if you give it some thought you will find that the whole of the chronicle is about change and how it causes peoples contented, complete sense of belonging to be shattered and about how they do or don't rebuild that serenity
good luck