Explain How Beveridge’s Poem, ‘Streets of Chippendale’, Discusses Australian Society and the Changes to Inner Sydney.
Chippendale has personified to become a family of ‘Aunts’, ‘eccentric, unmarried first cousins’ and ‘respected gentlemen’, when Ivy, Vine, Rose, Myrtle, Abercrombie, Hugo, Louis and Caroline are streets in the ‘Mount Druitt’ of Sydney’s CBD in the late fifties and sixties that were filled with factories, drunks, thieves, rapists and vandal’s.
Pauses have been used throughout the poem to generate a sense of unrest and dread, making ‘Chippendale’ sound more unruly and fearful than it actually is.
Listing has been used here to group ‘Ivy, Vine, Rose and Myrtle’, and ‘renovated villas, leisure hour balconies, trees and incomes’ together. The listing has added detail, therefore presenting a more complete image for the reader/listener, and has also helped keep the rhythm, therefore keeping with the flow of the rest of the poem.
Enjambment has been added to the start and finish of all stanzas in ‘Chippendale’, making it sound more like one long story, rather than a poem. It makes it easier to read. Similar to what the listing did, enjambment keeps the flow throughout the poem, making sure the rhythm is there throughout the entire length of ‘Chippendale’.
Imagery and detailed imagery have been used quite a lot during ‘Chippendale’. ‘Dressed in slacks and turtle necks, are walking pedigree dogs’ and ‘homes of kindly aunts in quiet suburbs’ are both examples of this. Imagery helps the poem seem more realistic, making sure the reader/listener is completely engaged in what is going on in the poem.
Similes and metaphors have perhaps been used the most. There is at least one simile in almost every stanza in ‘Chippendale’. ‘Suburbs go to the wall like families’ and ‘Streets change character’ are examples of both of these. Both are used in a way a lot like imagery, helping to create the image the reader/listener will ‘see’, so as to make the poem more reasonable.
Because Beveridge tried to make inanimate objects human, she needed to use as many techniques as she
Pauses have been used throughout the poem to generate a sense of unrest and dread, making ‘Chippendale’ sound more unruly and fearful than it actually is.
Listing has been used here to group ‘Ivy, Vine, Rose and Myrtle’, and ‘renovated villas, leisure hour balconies, trees and incomes’ together. The listing has added detail, therefore presenting a more complete image for the reader/listener, and has also helped keep the rhythm, therefore keeping with the flow of the rest of the poem.
Enjambment has been added to the start and finish of all stanzas in ‘Chippendale’, making it sound more like one long story, rather than a poem. It makes it easier to read. Similar to what the listing did, enjambment keeps the flow throughout the poem, making sure the rhythm is there throughout the entire length of ‘Chippendale’.
Imagery and detailed imagery have been used quite a lot during ‘Chippendale’. ‘Dressed in slacks and turtle necks, are walking pedigree dogs’ and ‘homes of kindly aunts in quiet suburbs’ are both examples of this. Imagery helps the poem seem more realistic, making sure the reader/listener is completely engaged in what is going on in the poem.
Similes and metaphors have perhaps been used the most. There is at least one simile in almost every stanza in ‘Chippendale’. ‘Suburbs go to the wall like families’ and ‘Streets change character’ are examples of both of these. Both are used in a way a lot like imagery, helping to create the image the reader/listener will ‘see’, so as to make the poem more reasonable.
Because Beveridge tried to make inanimate objects human, she needed to use as many techniques as she