'They explore the ways language is used to create voices in texts, and how this use of language affects interpretation and shapes meaning.'(Syllabus. 2015)
WORKSHEET on Komninos by the Kupful, 1994
· back to melbourne
· hillston welcome
· cobar, july 1993
· eat
· noura from narooma
· thomastown talk
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Activity One:
For each of the poems answer the following questions:
· The poem is written in a form known as …
· The poem makes me feel …
· The poem is about …
· When I read this poem I see …
Eg: ‘eat’
The poem is written in the form … rhyme and repetition, lowercase
The poem makes me feel … sad – the struggle of the entire migrant family –the irony of the situation: firstly ‘to eat or my country’ and then being told by the same parents ‘you don’t want to be fat all your life’
The poem is about … multiculturalism, migrants’ experience
When I read this poem I see … the struggle of every person in two ways: one- struggle to fit into the prescribed societal ‘right body shape’
two – is a struggle of the migrant to fit into the Australian diaspora
Activity Two:
Fill in the features of the poems in the given table:
Poem Structure Literary devices Example from the poem Effect created
assonance, coming home again’ - sounds create poet's attitude
allusion - Australian country towns
created by the referred icons
Activity Three:
Australian voice is defined as a representation of Australian identity through the use of language. Explain how the poet creates a distinct Australian voice in the given poems.
WORKSHEET on Komninos by the Kupful, 1994
· back to melbourne
· hillston welcome
· cobar, july 1993
· eat
· noura from narooma
· thomastown talk
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Activity One:
For each of the poems answer the following questions:
· The poem is written in a form known as …
· The poem makes me feel …
· The poem is about …
· When I read this poem I see …
Eg: ‘eat’
The poem is written in the form … rhyme and repetition, lowercase
The poem makes me feel … sad – the struggle of the entire migrant family –the irony of the situation: firstly ‘to eat or my country’ and then being told by the same parents ‘you don’t want to be fat all your life’
The poem is about … multiculturalism, migrants’ experience
When I read this poem I see … the struggle of every person in two ways: one- struggle to fit into the prescribed societal ‘right body shape’
two – is a struggle of the migrant to fit into the Australian diaspora
Activity Two:
Fill in the features of the poems in the given table:
Poem Structure Literary devices Example from the poem Effect created
- back to melbourne free verse alliteration, 'and me - The effect flows on
assonance, coming home again’ - sounds create poet's attitude
allusion - Australian country towns
created by the referred icons
- hillston welcome
- cobar,july 1993
- eat
- noura from narooma
- thomastown talk
Activity Three:
Australian voice is defined as a representation of Australian identity through the use of language. Explain how the poet creates a distinct Australian voice in the given poems.