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    FELIKS SKRZYNECKI: Places affect our sense of belonging through traditions and vogues. 1. Feliks Skrzynecki is a poem about the authors (Peter Skrzyneckis’) stepfather. The poem demonstrates the strong feeling of belonging Peter feels with his family. However it also expresses the detachment Peter feels from his cultural heritage. This is shown in the lines ‘Remnants of a language I inherited unknowingly’. The use of first person (‘I’) through out the poem is used to show the perception that Peter

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    Feliks Skrzynecki‚ composed by Peter Skrzynecki‚ is an affectionate‚ yet puzzled poem of the persona’s father‚ as seen through the eyes of the composer. The first stanza beings with the line‚ ‘My gentle father’ showing the reader that not only does this show some sort of affection and admiration the composer had for his father‚ but also some detachment. In the verse‚ it states the father’s devotion to his tasks stems from his sense of belonging to his garden; ‘Loved his garden like an only child’

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    fabricates their social and cultural expectations which inevitably influences their ability to belong. The poem Feliks Skrzynecki‚ composed by Peter Skrzynecki depicts a nostalgic yet perplexedly negative description of the writers father. The readers are taken on a journey from Peters child-like admiration for his father to the pairs developing detachment throughout the poem. Peter and his father have contrasting social and cultural expectations as a result of their different upbringings which influence

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    Feliks Skrzynecki Analysis

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    Skrzynecki Feliks Skrzynecki Feliks Skrzynecki is the poet’s father and this poem is a tribute to his dignity and stoicism in the face of loss and hardship. Felix’s individual journey from Europe to Australia‚ from one culture to another‚ echoes through the poem and it is clear that the impact of the journey is as strong for the son as it is for the father. Feliks Skrzynecki is an individual physical and cultural journey experienced by Felik’s and narrated by Peter Skrzynecki. It seems Felix

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    relationship with someone and then in the next breath it is gone‚ broken‚ destroyed? How did this situation impact you? The poem Feliks skrzynecki written by Peter skrzynecki‚ deals with the issue of the relationships between the generations and the adaption of migrants from an old European culture to the new Australian society. Through the poem we see the widening gap between father and son as the

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    Feliks Skrzynecki” although a paean of admiration for his father‚ reveals a growing disconnection between the two. The poem reflects aspects of post World War Two life for migrants in Australia‚ providing a viewpoint from the influx of migrants from the war-torn countries of Europe and the racism they endured under the White Australia Policy. This racism is manifested through the clerk’s ignorant question ‘Did your father ever attempt to learn English?’ Ironically‚ it is the clerk who is demeaned

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    Feliks Skrzynecki Analysis

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    prescribed texts that I have used to identify the power of own choice‚ attitudes of others and external factors that influence a person’s sense of belonging; include two poems from Peter Skrzynecki’s ‘Immigrant Chronicle’‚ ‘Migrant Hostel’ and ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’. Another two related texts that I have identified to have significant meaning and relation to the statement‚ include Ian Kim’s watercolour painting ‘Alienation’ and an anonymous online feature article called ‘The challenge of being a Muslim

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    Feliks Skrzynecki The issues of acceptance and alienation are crucially present in Peter Skrzynecki’s ’Feliks Skryzynecki’. Although the poem is a tribute to Peter Skrzynecki’s father‚ a range of concepts are also revealed. Through the use of powerful and vivid imagery‚ the poet successfully conveys Feliks as a man who is comfortable‚ content and secure in his own identity. In this poem‚ concepts of belonging and not belonging occur within place‚ family‚ community and culture. The first stanza

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    social‚ or physical. This notion is extensively explored in Peter Skrzynecki’s poem ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’ from the anthology ‘Immigrant Chronicle’ and in Tim Winton’s – ‘Neighbours.’ Both texts explore the ways individuals achieve a sense of belonging‚ through finding comfort in a social and/or physical environment. Skrzynecki’s poem Feliks Skrzynecki explores the concept of belonging in which‚ the central character Feliks is portrayed as a man who didn’t belong to the pro-dominant ‘civilised’ Australia

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    Feliks Skrzynecki Stanza 1: • Attribute to Felik’s dignity and stoicism in the face of loss and hardship. • Personal/Possessive pronoun "my"-final relationship • "Gentle"-tender adjective • (warm feelings‚ loving affection) • ‘Kept pace only with the Joneses of his own mind’s making’ • Colloquialism • Alliteration of ‘M’-‘Mind’s making’ (Has his own values‚ individual-sets his own standards) • Initial picture of a man detached from the world that surrounds him-shows immigrant isolation

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