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hey what school do u go to???hey i was wondering if anyone had a any brief notes on Skrzynecki's poems? If so please share i really need them 4 my trials
Felik's Skrzynecki:
- father driven by personal goals
- historical, cultural belonging
- relatively materialistic
- restore cultural identity
- reflective tone
- renaissance: economic
- observational
- introspective
- motif: natural environment, garden (pre war Europe)
- context: populational cleansing
- gaps/silence: Peter not present i.e. father doesn't prioritise him
- Polish v English/Australian
- dominant hegemony/culture
- Americanisation
- paragraphs act as vignettes, eposidic
- fractured, fragments of the past e.g. language, animals, garden etc
- hard-working
- obedient
- verbs = actionary = father's physicality
- loyalty to Polish heritage
- history/memory of Poland = continual care of garden (more important than Peter since he is intergrated further into new Australian culture = disobeying unwritten cultural loyalty)
- home is where the heart lies
- past dominates
- social purgatory
- flashbacks/reminiscient
- cultural mannerisms (handshakes, Pete doesn't fit with it)
- ambiguity
- many people died of malnutrition
- respect, regard for father
- father lives in the moment, Peter lives in past (vice-versa, meh!)
- content with status in society
- best of both worlds
- master of nature
- relationship to 10 Mary Street = idea of new entity (home) to belong = material, cultural and psychological
St. Patrick's College:
- sense of pride
- culturally driven
- fees are irrelevant (wanting only what was 'best')
- working class
- distracted/externalised school environment for Pete
- 1956
- biblical allusion to mother Mary = iconographic = guardian = judgemental = good/evil?
- compassionate, caring
- Christian school founded on religious values
- juxtapostion
- burdenous
- omniscient
- conservative
- foreboding: 'clouds' tone of negativity
- mother = fashion = related value
- personification statue of Mary
- geographical isolation
- humour (brand of soap) reflects naivety/alienation
- duality
- chronological
- evaluates school experience (good at spelling etc)
- inclusive
- endearing
- "let your light shine" wrong place for Pete i.e. belongs writing without stresses of schoolyard
- time = routine
- cutlural emphasis = education
- socioeconomic superiority
- ownership/belonging
- childhood games
Ancestors:
- active voice = demanding/pleading
- beard: wisdom/knowledge
- generic representation = depersonalised but connected to Pete
- unknown: aspects of culture, sense of alienation
- power/focreful
- cultural heritage = naivety
- ever-haunting past
- mythological
- photographical
- historical
- elemental
- imagery
- family
- melacholic
- no sense of cadence
- connectivity collective power
- motif = sand/grass = dead/alive = Poland/Australia = past/present = 10 Mary St./Polish Home etc
- timeless figures
- tainted, torturous past
- nightmares
- extended symbol: faces
- hyperbolic
- melodramatic
- continued searching for a home not found
- cultural re-rooting
- crossing red sea = blood allusion
- association with past
- questioning
- mysterious
- stable home
- spiritual connectedness
- displacement
- religious illusion: following Christmas star
- unity
- detachment from ancestors = main idea = haunts him = feels alienated/guilty for not being attached to culture
10 Mary Street
- routine/mundane
- blank verse quality
- recollections
- meticulous preservation of garden
- low socio-economic status
- "St Patrick's College cap" ---> intertextuality to himself
- American dream = paid off house in short amount of time
- materialistic and ritualistic
- familiarity and security associated with house
- hostile surroundings: contrast to Europe - created garden = pieces of Europe = belonging to old culture
- communal shuffle - rush
- short, sharp language
- always a migrant
- loss of culture - globalisation, death of generations
- pride
- ownership as form of belonging
- commerical domination
- urban growth
- inevitability of house being destroyed
- organic V urban
- Europe V Australia
- Old V New
- Familial V Material
- History V Inevitability
- food, mannerisms, smoking
- conversation of culture - links to the point above
- tautological
- ironic
- listing
- repetitious
- minimalist
- ambivalence
- regret
- gullability
- didactic
- reminiscient
- stagnant, static, still
- convention
- lifestyle, dreams, possessions, fragments of belonging
- symbolism
- similes
- difference/change V harmony/love/reverence
- care/concern for nature
- idealistic
- cyclic, actionary
- icon of sucess in foreign country = achievement of the Australian dream
- address, labels
- mourning
- hyperbolic?
- humourous
- volta
- aside
- transient state
- cultural accessibility
- links to Earth/nature
- duality/confusion/purgatory
- cadence/resolution
- passive V active voices
- assonance, consonance
Migrant Hostel
- chaotic
- large amounts of migrants
- concentration camp atmosphere
- animalisatic
- imprisoning
- simile = homing pigeon
- obstacles to belong = entire cultural way of being/prejudices/racism
- basic human need to belong = sensory, instinctual, primal
- disorganisational
- impermanence
- speculative
- carelessness
- state of nothing = existentialist
- accent = indicates belonging/culture
- lack of security
- stream of consciousness approach
- punctuation = emjambment
- alliteration
- assonance
- people as commodities = dehumanisation
- 'we' = finding similarities of experience = all alienated = all belong to each other
- communities
- peer groups
- collective
- warn, criticise
- uncertainty
- motif = bird
- chaos
- confusion
- classification
- metonomy
- reactionary, responsive
- conformity
- willing to conform in order to belong
- curfew
- cannot belong
Post Card
- tree = cross, cultural/religious allusion
- active/catalyst
- simple and complex
- idealistic
- sense of duty
- process driven
- patriotic
- fake reality
- italics = direct/upfront
- lingering/unwanted
- symbolism
- personification
- communism
- dichotomy
- cultural dilemma
- rhetorical question
- justifying
- pain
- demands
- cyclic
- sky's brightest shade
- pride
- angst
- subconscious
In The Folk Museum
- double entendre
- tedium
- darkness = entity = pervasive = nothing
- listing = lack of relevance
- denying
- capitalisation
- personification
- moves beyond frame of reference
- apathy/ageing
- dying/sensory
- contrast: life/death, past/future, hopelessness/hopeful
- relates to ancestors = denying past
- validate
- soft 'w' sound
- alliteration
- can't be more than visitor to Australia and Poland = no man's land
- representation of past culture
- ritualistic
- biblical allusion
- multispace sound
- abandoning heritage = haunts him
- generalised title = detachment
- physicalisation of reality/past
Credit goes to bored of sc.
http://community.boredofstudies.org/818/concept-belonging/196550/peter-skrzynecki/2.html
- father driven by personal goals
- historical, cultural belonging
- relatively materialistic
- restore cultural identity
- reflective tone
- renaissance: economic
- observational
- introspective
- motif: natural environment, garden (pre war Europe)
- context: populational cleansing
- gaps/silence: Peter not present i.e. father doesn't prioritise him
- Polish v English/Australian
- dominant hegemony/culture
- Americanisation
- paragraphs act as vignettes, eposidic
- fractured, fragments of the past e.g. language, animals, garden etc
- hard-working
- obedient
- verbs = actionary = father's physicality
- loyalty to Polish heritage
- history/memory of Poland = continual care of garden (more important than Peter since he is intergrated further into new Australian culture = disobeying unwritten cultural loyalty)
- home is where the heart lies
- past dominates
- social purgatory
- flashbacks/reminiscient
- cultural mannerisms (handshakes, Pete doesn't fit with it)
- ambiguity
- many people died of malnutrition
- respect, regard for father
- father lives in the moment, Peter lives in past (vice-versa, meh!)
- content with status in society
- best of both worlds
- master of nature
- relationship to 10 Mary Street = idea of new entity (home) to belong = material, cultural and psychological
St. Patrick's College:
- sense of pride
- culturally driven
- fees are irrelevant (wanting only what was 'best')
- working class
- distracted/externalised school environment for Pete
- 1956
- biblical allusion to mother Mary = iconographic = guardian = judgemental = good/evil?
- compassionate, caring
- Christian school founded on religious values
- juxtapostion
- burdenous
- omniscient
- conservative
- foreboding: 'clouds' tone of negativity
- mother = fashion = related value
- personification statue of Mary
- geographical isolation
- humour (brand of soap) reflects naivety/alienation
- duality
- chronological
- evaluates school experience (good at spelling etc)
- inclusive
- endearing
- "let your light shine" wrong place for Pete i.e. belongs writing without stresses of schoolyard
- time = routine
- cutlural emphasis = education
- socioeconomic superiority
- ownership/belonging
- childhood games
Ancestors:
- active voice = demanding/pleading
- beard: wisdom/knowledge
- generic representation = depersonalised but connected to Pete
- unknown: aspects of culture, sense of alienation
- power/focreful
- cultural heritage = naivety
- ever-haunting past
- mythological
- photographical
- historical
- elemental
- imagery
- family
- melacholic
- no sense of cadence
- connectivity collective power
- motif = sand/grass = dead/alive = Poland/Australia = past/present = 10 Mary St./Polish Home etc
- timeless figures
- tainted, torturous past
- nightmares
- extended symbol: faces
- hyperbolic
- melodramatic
- continued searching for a home not found
- cultural re-rooting
- crossing red sea = blood allusion
- association with past
- questioning
- mysterious
- stable home
- spiritual connectedness
- displacement
- religious illusion: following Christmas star
- unity
- detachment from ancestors = main idea = haunts him = feels alienated/guilty for not being attached to culture
10 Mary Street
- routine/mundane
- blank verse quality
- recollections
- meticulous preservation of garden
- low socio-economic status
- "St Patrick's College cap" ---> intertextuality to himself
- American dream = paid off house in short amount of time
- materialistic and ritualistic
- familiarity and security associated with house
- hostile surroundings: contrast to Europe - created garden = pieces of Europe = belonging to old culture
- communal shuffle - rush
- short, sharp language
- always a migrant
- loss of culture - globalisation, death of generations
- pride
- ownership as form of belonging
- commerical domination
- urban growth
- inevitability of house being destroyed
- organic V urban
- Europe V Australia
- Old V New
- Familial V Material
- History V Inevitability
- food, mannerisms, smoking
- conversation of culture - links to the point above
- tautological
- ironic
- listing
- repetitious
- minimalist
- ambivalence
- regret
- gullability
- didactic
- reminiscient
- stagnant, static, still
- convention
- lifestyle, dreams, possessions, fragments of belonging
- symbolism
- similes
- difference/change V harmony/love/reverence
- care/concern for nature
- idealistic
- cyclic, actionary
- icon of sucess in foreign country = achievement of the Australian dream
- address, labels
- mourning
- hyperbolic?
- humourous
- volta
- aside
- transient state
- cultural accessibility
- links to Earth/nature
- duality/confusion/purgatory
- cadence/resolution
- passive V active voices
- assonance, consonance
Migrant Hostel
- chaotic
- large amounts of migrants
- concentration camp atmosphere
- animalisatic
- imprisoning
- simile = homing pigeon
- obstacles to belong = entire cultural way of being/prejudices/racism
- basic human need to belong = sensory, instinctual, primal
- disorganisational
- impermanence
- speculative
- carelessness
- state of nothing = existentialist
- accent = indicates belonging/culture
- lack of security
- stream of consciousness approach
- punctuation = emjambment
- alliteration
- assonance
- people as commodities = dehumanisation
- 'we' = finding similarities of experience = all alienated = all belong to each other
- communities
- peer groups
- collective
- warn, criticise
- uncertainty
- motif = bird
- chaos
- confusion
- classification
- metonomy
- reactionary, responsive
- conformity
- willing to conform in order to belong
- curfew
- cannot belong
Post Card
- tree = cross, cultural/religious allusion
- active/catalyst
- simple and complex
- idealistic
- sense of duty
- process driven
- patriotic
- fake reality
- italics = direct/upfront
- lingering/unwanted
- symbolism
- personification
- communism
- dichotomy
- cultural dilemma
- rhetorical question
- justifying
- pain
- demands
- cyclic
- sky's brightest shade
- pride
- angst
- subconscious
In The Folk Museum
- double entendre
- tedium
- darkness = entity = pervasive = nothing
- listing = lack of relevance
- denying
- capitalisation
- personification
- moves beyond frame of reference
- apathy/ageing
- dying/sensory
- contrast: life/death, past/future, hopelessness/hopeful
- relates to ancestors = denying past
- validate
- soft 'w' sound
- alliteration
- can't be more than visitor to Australia and Poland = no man's land
- representation of past culture
- ritualistic
- biblical allusion
- multispace sound
- abandoning heritage = haunts him
- generalised title = detachment
- physicalisation of reality/past
Credit goes to bored of sc.
http://community.boredofstudies.org/818/concept-belonging/196550/peter-skrzynecki/2.html
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