The process of discovery has the potential to enhance or renew an individual’s and others perception through facing confronting or provocative experiences or by the possibility of exploring the unknown. The poems by Robert Gray “The Meatworks” and “Late Ferry” encompass how discoveries can be confronting or have a restorative process. In addition the animated short “Paperman” directed by John Kahrs highlights how sudden and unexpected discoveries in everyday life can lead to positive ramifications. The process of discovery can be emotional, physical, spiritual and intellectual. This can lead to new values and understandings. All these ideas are displayed in my selected texts. Firstly the consequences of discovery can stem firm our perceptions …show more content…
Gray uses a persona in this to poem to describe what gray is thinking. The catalyst for Grays discovery of self in the poem is derived from the ferry goes “up” the ‘huge dark harbour’, rather than “away”, this implies that the unknown journey is going to be an uncertain one as the use of truncation creates an edgy feeling. However Grays use of alliteration shows his appreciation for the unknown ‘dark’ environment as he sits and watches the ferry float of into the abyss. The imagery of the ferry “leaving now” from the jetty out into the harbour emphasises the idea of breaking away from home and voyaging out to discover the world. The catalyst for Grays intellectual discovery is portrayed in the through his understanding of his renewed perception of the world as he realises He will “lose sight of the ferry soon”. The ferry is a metaphor as a safety net for the persona to cling onto. This demonstrates that the persona is fixated with its presence, and the ferry’s journey from the jetty out in the harbour is a representation of the personas growth. This is how through going on a journey into the unknown you can discover yourself spiritually and enhance yours and others perceptions around …show more content…
When one explores the world unexpected or sudden discoveries can occur and emotional and physical discoveries are made. The animated short “Paperman” by John Kahrs highlights how sudden and unexpected discoveries in everyday life can lead to far positive ramifications. The main character George is tired of his boring job and when the opportunity of meeting his potentially significant other arrives he cannot do anything else but take that opportunity.The Eyeline match shot when she leaves is very significant as during the shot-reverse-shot, the audience do not realise that the woman has left and neither does the man. The effect of this is that we as an audience share the experience with the character of not seeing the woman leave, and have the same concern that the man may never see her again. However the Eyeline match shot when he notices her in a building restores hope when the man seems to get excited when he peers out his office window. Following this are the events of him trying to get her attention occur. The use of the eyeline shot depicts to us George’s facial expressions which gives the audience the idea that George is seeking adventure and is bored by his job. Throughout the short the motif of the paper is an important one as it is the reason there relationship exists. Towards the end of the short the wind indicated romantic interest sends George on a physical
The metaphors in "To the Harbormaster" are immense and exceptionally significant to the entirety of the poem itself. This poem contains the speaker, which is perceived to be the ship captain, a large ship, and whoever "you" is perceived to be. The speaker uses a metaphor in that he is comparing his journey to reach "you" to that of a voyage on a ship. At times, it seems that the speaker is even taking place as the ship. "In storms and / at sunset, with the metallic coils of the tide / around my fathomless arms' (lines 4-5) and "I offer my hull and the tattered cordage of my will" (10-11) give in to placing qualities of the ship onto the speaker himself. These
...He is still anchored to his past and transmits the message that one makes their own choices and should be satisfied with their lives. Moreover, the story shows that one should not be extremely rigid and refuse to change their beliefs and that people should be willing to adapt to new customs in order to prevent isolation. Lastly, reader is able to understand that sacrifice is an important part of life and that nothing can be achieved without it. Boats are often used as symbols to represent a journey through life, and like a captain of a boat which is setting sail, the narrator feels that his journey is only just beginning and realizes that everyone is in charge of their own life. Despite the wind that can sometimes blow feverishly and the waves that may slow the journey, the boat should not change its course and is ultimately responsible for completing its voyage.
This experimental film makes use of a variety of camera shots to create a unique story that is at times funny, at times violent, and at times sad. It follows a man and a woman who are business partners; he is a hit man and she tells him the target. They are attracted to each other, but he does not want to start a relationship for fear it will destroy their business relationship. He finds another girl and in the end decides to end the business relationship because his partner can not get over him. He does, however, agree to one more job, where he ends up getting killed by his target. There is also a parallel story of a young man who earns money by annoying people and his relationship with his father and the girl he likes. He helps this girl look for the woman her boyfriend is cheating on her with and then the girl goes back to her boyfriend. In the end he meets the girl whose partner died and they ride off “into the sunset” on his motorcycle.
... social aspects of life. News reports of scientific breakthroughs rarely make the news because they are not viewed as important as the social or political news. The greatest possible good is achieved with a group of people, seeking a single answer or goal, and not giving up on the question until an answer is discovered. When group of actors meet to develop a single theory or thought the result is always better than with the individual. Even should the individual come to the same answer, the group will likely be able to show the easiest and most efficient methodology. Education and the advancement of knowledge through the use of peers is the best use of acting. Education and the advancement of knowledge are the two most important aspects of action.
At the beginning of the poem, the speaker starts by telling the reader the place, time and activity he is doing, stating that he saw something that he will always remember. His description of his view is explained through simile for example “Ripe apples were caught like red fish in the nets of their branches” (Updike), captivating the reader’s attention
Atwood takes many of today’s potential scientific developments and illustrates the worst possible outcome of what may happen if we continue the unregulated pursuit of knowledge. In reality, the scientific advances of today will yield a higher standard of living for the majority of the world tomorrow. We will continue to push for the best in everything including science, medicine, and technology; we will not allow any single person to make the sole decision to develop an idea. Scientific progression will save many lives; therefore, it should and will always be there for us.
The reading of “The Boat” by Alistair Macleod is an interesting and sad story that displays many elements figuratively and literally. The first figurative element is the boat. At a literal perspective, the boat is used for fishing and boat rides, although these are not the only things that the boat represents. We learn that the father in some way, as been sacrificing his working life for his family, for something that he doesn’t absolutely love. This shows that he is in some way trapped, or imprisoned. The boat displays
An essential key to the theme of “The Diver” is through the subtle yet prevailing use of Biblical references. From the very beginning of Currie’s poem, a simile is used when describing the “bridge like a Roman fort”. This helps to set the tone that something important is about to happen and also provides a Biblical base to the structure of the poem. Lines four to six describe the man’s journey up towards the bridge. This journey can be compared to Jesus’ struggle towards the top of the hill where he was crucified. Perhaps this man was also carrying a “load on his shoulders”, so to speak. The poem becomes even more Biblical as “others bet upon his chance”, much like Jesus’ own fate. As the diver prepares for the inevitable, his situation has Biblical meaning. “At the summit of the span he rose/ his arms outstretched/ flung a cross against the sun”’, are perhaps three of the most powerful lines in the poem. These lines are followed by much anticipation from the crowd below. The dive symbolizes the end of something, which is also supported when “The river circling away/ grew silent as held breath/ still as death”. These lines make is seem as though everything, and everyone, even the river, are “holding their breath” in anticipation of the outcome of the dive. Then, starting at line twenty-one, the rebirth begins, as, “from unknown depths/ his head broke the water/ shook out a crown of sunlit spray. There is a strong Biblical presence in the comparisons used in this poem, which help to support the theme of hope and rebirth, while providing powerful imagery.
At first, the speaker is saying the ferryman only has one dim Latern to illuminate his way and he has a mountain of fresh dead body to deal with. "I 'd say by now he must be confused , as to which side is which, I 'd say it doesn 't matter, no one complains he 's got their pockets to go through" here the speaker is saying "it doesn 't matter", however, he didn’t clearly point out what does the pronoun "it" refer to, it allows readers to extend their imagination about the meaning of the pronoun. "Once in a long while a mirror, or a book which he throws" the "mirror" and "book" are symbolic, mirror can help people get a better understanding of who they are and book reflects the outside world, however, the ferryman is throws them away, which could cause readers wonder why is the ferryman throwing away something more important. For the last two lines "overboard into the dark river, swift and cold and deep" create an image of the river in readers ' mind. The writer is trying to convey that although the outside world is huge, fast pacing, and full of unknown dangers which makes human beings seemed insignificant and forgettable, we still need to keep doing our work as
In the end, the journey the speaker embarked on throughout the poem was one of learning, especially as the reader was taken through the evolution of the speakers thoughts, demonstrated by the tone, and experienced the images that were seen in the speaker’s nightmare of the personified fear. As the journey commenced, the reader learned how the speaker dealt with the terrors and fears that were accompanied by some experience in the speaker’s life, and optimistically the reader learned just how they themselves deal with the consequences and troubles that are a result of the various situations they face in their
Through metaphors, the speaker proclaims of her longing to be one with the sea. As she notices The mermaids in the basement,(3) and frigates- in the upper floor,(5) it seems as though she is associating these particular daydreams with her house. She becomes entranced with these spectacles and starts to contemplate suicide.
At the beginning of the novel the reader is informed that Marlow is “not typical”, that he, contrary to stay-at-home-minded seamen, is a “wanderer”. He has no home, in a psychological sense of the word. He simply “follows the sea”. This may evoke an interpretation that the man is disturbed, that he attempts to find out about the secrets of his soul, to get to know himself. Since boyhood he had been interested in unexplored lands and especially in a long winding snake-like river with the “head” in the sea and the “tail” plunging deeply into the land, which, as Marlow admits, “charmed” him. This image resembles a map of a journey from the dark lands of the soul, the unconstrained, uncivilised core, which may be called a Freudian Id, towards light, that is Superego. Marlow desires to follow this path in the opposite di...
Albert Einstein said, “We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.” This new manner of thinking should be based on pre-existing knowledge. This pre-existing knowledge is necessary because it is the catalyst that pushes the human race forward, making us want to discover more. Trying to discover completely new knowledge would not yield the same results. Basing your research off what you already know allows you to compare the new data that you collected to the old data that is already present. If you discover something new you will have nothing to compare it with. This does not allow you the luxury of seeing if what you discovered was an improvement. This essay will examine how important it is to discover new ways of thinking about prior knowledge than it is to discover new facts. I believe that using prior knowledge to push discovery is much more important than trying to discovers new data or facts.
Through alliteration and imagery, Coleridge turns the words of the poem into a system of symbols that become unfixed to the reader. Coleridge uses alliteration throughout the poem, in which the reader “hovers” between imagination and reality. As the reader moves through the poem, they feel as if they are traveling along a river, “five miles meandering with a mazy motion” (25). The words become a symbol of a slow moving river and as the reader travels along the river, they are also traveling through each stanza. This creates a scene that the viewer can turn words into symbols while in reality they are just reading text. Coleridge is also able to illustrate a suspension of the mind through imagery; done so by producing images that are unfixed to the r...
The speaker communicates many things in the first stanza of the poem. The first line, ?Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,? uses imagery with the color yellow, the color of gold, to show that the speaker sees an opportunity ahead of him. The two roads symbolizes the choices and consequences he must choose. The next line, ?And sorry I could not travel both,? illustrates how difficult it is to make a choice. It is impossible not to wonder what could happen by choosing the other road and what he could be missing out on. ?And being one traveler long I stood,? shows how the speaker would like to be in two places at once. Unable to accomplish this, he takes a long time to decide on what he should do. Finally, the speaker describes studying the first option, looking as far into the future as he possibly could with the lines, ?And looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth.?