Distinctivly Visual Douglas Stewart

Composers use distinctively visual images to convey distinctive experiences within our lives, such as feelings we have felt, places we have been and images we have seen. This then helps emphasise the different purposes distinctively visual images can create. This is exemplified through Douglas Stewart’s poems “Wombat”, “The Snow-Gum” and “Fireflies” as well as Frederick Mccubbin’s painting “Down On His Luck”.
Stewart conveys his experiences of Feelings towards nature, as well as his past situations in relation to nature. This is demonstrated through the use of various techniques, such as personification, similes’, imagery and contrasts. Mccubbin, however uses visual techniques such as vector lines, colour and salience. Ultimately, both composers express the importance of nature through distinctive images creating different purpose of nature and how it affects people.
Nature and mankind can unify together through the use of distinct images. The composers, “Mccubbin” and “Stewart” of both “Wombat” and “Down on his luck” convey nature as working alongside mankind. “Wombat”, tells the story of Stewart encountering a wild wombat on his trails through Australia. Stewart expresses mankind working with or having a relationship with nature through creating a contemplative mood. This is portrayed within the lines “We have one mother, good brother; it is Her laughter that sends you now”. A contemplative mood has been evoked as Stewart leaves the reader thinking and contemplating about the spirituality of nature. Stewart is referring to Mother Nature by using “mother” and through punctuating the “Her” .This helps portray Mother Nature as being a God like figure or having a spiritual importance towards Stewart. These techniques help create a distinctive image of Mother Nature working with Stewart and the wombat and help the responder understand that man’s purpose is to have a relationship with nature.
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