Judith Butler questions the notion that certain gendered behaviors are a result of learning the performance of gender behavior‚ that which is associated with masculinity and femininity. She argues that it is a social construction that is only true to the extent of it being performed. Gender as defined in Undoing Gender is a “practice of improvisation within a scene of constraint‚” which is within a social context. The stylization of the body‚ gestures‚ movements and enactments create these
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The notion that gender is socially constructed is an idea that Judith Butler argues against‚ instead she suggests that gender does not exist. Butler states that gender cannot exist until performed‚ these acts that are performed are merely repetitions of pre-established behaviour. Instead we impersonate what we believe to be gender and gender appropriate‚ these gender conventions that are impossible to maintain as every person is different. (Butler 2009) It is these learned behaviours that establish
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language portrayed in their poetry. Judith write is a famous Australian poet who wrote many poems that portrayed Australia’s Cultural Identity. Her poems The Wonga Vine"‚ "Jet Flight Over Derby"‚ "A Country Town" and "Two Dreamtimes" strongly reflect the landscape‚ environment‚ history‚ beliefs and social issues that Australia‚ had during the times that Judith Wright lived through. Her poetry also reflects the modern cultural identity that Australia has now. Judith Wright was born in 1915 into a
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their views on war‚ but to intensify the reader’s emotions as well. Binyon uses euphemism to glorify war‚ and in essence‚ serve his propagandist purpose in the poem For the Fallen. However‚ both Owen and Waugh use graphic‚ hard hitting language to reveal the gruesome truth of war through the poems Dulce et Decorum Est and Cannon Fodder. The poem For the Fallen by Robert Binyon was first published in The Times newspaper in Britain as a piece of propaganda to persuade young men to join the army. He uses
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Legend by Judith Wright - 1915-2000‚ written in 1949 and published in anthology ’The Gateway’ in 1953. The blacksmith’s boy went out with a rifle and a black dog running behind. Cobwebs snatched at his feet‚ rivers hindered him‚ thorn branches caught at his eyes to make him blind and the sky turned into an unlucky opal‚ but he didn’t mind. I can break branches‚ I can swim rivers‚ I can stare out any spider I meet‚ said he to his dog and his rifle. The
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in these two poems “Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening ” and “Loveliest of Trees” describe man’s attraction to the beauty of the nature outside. Robert Frost and A.E. Houseman each use different types of sentence structure‚ imagery‚ and diction to depict the environment and feelings of the narrators in their poems. Written by Frost‚ “Stopping by the woods on a Snowy Evening‚” tells of the travels of a man who stops briefly to watch the snow; however‚ there is much more to this poem than a literal
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“This is poem that has been composed by Kevin Halligan. The poem ‘The Cockroach’ is a sonnet written by Kevin Halligan. It is written in the iambic pentameter as there are ten syllables in each line and as it mostly follows the pattern of the syllables being unstressed and then stressed. For example the line “I (unstressed) watched (stressed) a (unstressed) giant (stressed-unstressed) cockroach (stressed-unstressed) start (stressed) to (unstressed) pace (stressed). The poem includes a few literary
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their thoughts and opinions to be recognized through their writing. This insight allows readers to gain a wider perspective on the views the poet bears on the many themes and issues raised throughout their poetry. In the poems‚ Wedding Photograph‚ 1913 and The Old Prison‚ poet Judith Wright uses strong imagery to comment on the themes and issues present in society‚ from the devastation of war which is relayed through the use of personification and alliteration‚ to the impracticality of altering the
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parting‚ it is never easy to express the emotions one feels at that moment‚ let alone transform it onto paper. Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson writes a poem entitled “Break‚ Break‚ Break”‚ suggesting a theme of loss and heartache; Anne Bronte writes a poem called “Farewell”‚ which shares the same emotions and central theme as Tennyson’s poem. In both of these poems the speakers reflect on heartbreak through excellent lyrical techniques but have very different ways of relaying how they handle heartbreak to
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feeling in the poem in which they are writing. Judith Minty‚ in her poem “Conjoined‚” uses imagery to truly depict the meaning and emphasis of that work. Through the images that Minty paints in the minds of her readers‚ the essence of the poem is revealed. One can strongly see and feel the emotion that this poem possesses. The images are distinct and bold‚ and through the first‚ second‚ and third stanza‚ the images can be easily seen and identified. The poem “Conjoined” is not a pleasant poem‚ but it speaks
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