Literature has long been difficult to understand, an author’s use of rhetoric can be analyzed to have many different significances as well as meanings. Poetry is particularly difficult to analyze, thus many writers and critics have created their own arguments for the meaning of different pieces. As literary critics and scholars ourselves, we in this English 100W class must determine what arguments we find valid, and which arguments give us deeper insight on pieces that we read and study.…
‘From work to text’ by Rolland Barthes gives an initiative to look at a piece of writing, photograph, literature piece, painting, sculpture et cetera from a different way, in which the piece is analyzed as a work and as a text. Simply to state, something is ‘a work’ if it is concrete and occupies some space in book (in a library for an instance). It is a finished and countable object. And a text on the other hand is a “methodological field, which is only experienced only when working on it, in production.” A work is believed to contain number of meanings hidden on it, which are found on being read. So texts remain inside the works and diverse readers get to perceive it in diverse circumstances.…
Textual form has the ability to differentiate whether or not a text accomplishes an idea the composer is attempting to create. The way in which a composer represents different perspectives throughout texts can have the power to influence and induce their audience to analyse and understand their purpose in a subjective way. Ted Hughe’s famous poems within his anthology ‘Birthday Letters’, Sylvia Plath’s moving poetry relating to Hugh’s, and the contradictory film by Stephen King, ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ are three examples of texts that have conflicting textual form.…
We often discover we are familiar with certain ideas expressed in novels or short stories. However the way in which different writers express these ideas…
This module requires students to explore and evaluate a specific text and its reception in a range of context. It develops students’ understanding of questions of textual integrity. Students explore the ideas in Gwen Harwood’s poetry through analysing its construction, content and language. They research others’ perspectives of the poems and test these against their own understanding and interpretation of the text.…
• All texts are deliberately constructed to convey an agenda and a set of values. • This means that every composer has a purpose, which is based on the issues arising from their context and audience. • To that end, the composer uses conflicting perspectives as a vehicle for successfully conveying their purpose to the audience. • So, through the representation of events, personalities and situations (which utilises form, language and structural devices), the responder is positioned to accept the perspective that the composer has represented as valid/credible. • As a consequence, the composer is able to successfully impart their values to the audience.…
Birthday Letters is Hughes attempt at "opening a direct and inner contact" with his late and emotionally disturbed wife Sylvia Plath. Victoria Laurie describes the poems as a "a collection of elegiac tender and harrowing poetry addressed to his dead wife.". through Birthday Letters, Hughes asserts that the facts and memories of his life and relationship belong to him and not to the world or the media. He says "I hope that everyone owns the facts of his or her own life." In this sense, as well as being a personal address to Plath, Birthday Letters is also Hughes' attempt to own his truth.…
Some artists deal with language as a character on its own as opposed to a surface to draw upon. These artists place texts in ways that are intended to stimulate the way an audience perceives a work, to evoke emotion or to create a statement. However, others, particularly graphic designers, tend to focus on the decorative powers of text. Regardless of the artist’s intentions, the appearance of text within art can shift our appreciation of their sound and meaning. Artists that explore text in art include: Barbara Kruger, Yukinori Yanagi, Katarzyna Kozyra, Jenny Holzer, Wenda Gu, Shirin Neshat, Miriam Stannage, Colin McCahon and Jenny Watson.…
Students explore the role of textual features in the shaping of meaning in specific contexts. They develop the communication skills necessary for a wide variety of personal, social, historical, cultural and workplace contexts. Composition focuses on analysing and experimenting with textual forms characteristic of the specific contexts. These compositions may be realised in a variety of forms and media.…
Distinctly visual techniques are conveyed and compared in Lawson’s short stories and Catherine Hardwicke’s 2003 film Thirteen. Both Lawson and Hardwicke’s texts employ techniques such as personification, Imagery and flashbacks, which highlight and communicate the ways distinctively visual, are compared in texts.…
the author’s use of literary devices to contribute to the richness of textual meaning; and to control the…
(20) “You don’t need to re-explain a text to somebody who has already read it. But you can offer a different way of reading that text, to point our how your perspective allows you to notice something new about it.”…
Perspective denotes a way of viewing the world, and significantly influences the ways in which responders are positioned with regard to events, personalities or situations. Throughout his anthology Birthday Letters, which is an address to his dead wife Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes develops a perspective which cultivates the sympathy of the responder. Conflicting perspectives are evident in the interplay between memory and hindsight, the opposing personas of Hughes and Plath, and the inconsistency between appearance and reality. The form and content of this anthology is indicative of Hughes’ attempt to publicly impose his perspective upon his relationship with Plath; a perspective…
Birthday letters is a set of poems, said to have been written by Hughes for six years prior to his death, on his ex wife’s birthday each year this the selection of poems being called birthday letters. The selection on poems surrounds his problematic marital issues between himself and his wife Sylvia Plath. It is also to show the conflicting perspective on their relationship. This is mainly towards the criticism he received all those years after her suicide. He had been blamed for being the catalyst for her suicide/death and so began a collection of poems regarding their relationship but in some way, excusing himself and explaining that she was already on a destructive path.…
“Representation; refers to the way people, events, issues or subjects are presented in a text. The term implies that texts are not mirrors of the real world – they are constructions of ‘reality’. These constructions can be shaped through the writer’s use of conventions and techniques.”1…