Lady Feeding The Cats
Essay 4 – In what ways are people and their experiences brought to life through the distinctevly visual
The elements of characterisation, dialogue, dramatic imagery, symbolism are all deliberate constructions that shape the distinctly visual and affect an audience's response. Throughout an individual’s life distinct experiences are always carried out which affect the choices and decisions individuals make. Composers like Henry Lawson born in 1867 created distinctly visual images that have clearly sketched in the readers mind through the use of vernacular language, black humour, descriptive language and metaphors. Texts like The Loaded Dog (1901), In a Dry Season (1892) and Joe Wilson’s Courtship are examples of how distinct experiences can …show more content…
Lady Feeding the Cats follows a two-sonnet structure consisting of 14 lines. Stewart utilises varied rhyming schemes and poetic techniques euphony, personification, descriptive language, rhyme and romanticism. The structure of the poem is a sonnet with no fixed rhyming scheme. The title of the poem is often a significant guide to its meaning and here the contrast between ‘lady’ and ‘cats’. Lady alludes to upper class, posh and beauty. The irony being displayed is that she shouldn’t be feeding the cats. The vivid descriptive language Douglas utilizes, “her long dress green and black like a pine in the rain”, symbolizes her hidden mysterious figure. It also signifies her link to nature. Stewart is focusing on the interaction between human beings, animals and nature. Douglas’s close observation of animal behavior dominates the first sestet. “Proudly they step to meet her; they march together with an arching of backs and a waving of plumy tails.” Again, the verbs are crucial for the visual impact. The cats symbolize the royal court. The rhyming couplet in the last stanza, “the times are hard for exiled…. To be queen of the cats,” suggest that although migration can result in civilization rejecting the individual, reverting to nature provides an honorary status and a royal one. Douglas has represented an empathetic tone for the lady feeding the cats. Audience visualise the perfection and beauty Australian nature features. This shows an outright contrast with Lawson’s text The Drovers Wife as it conveys the lifelessness and aridity of the Australian outback and how a disconnected bush women from civilisation without her husband survives the bush with just her
The elements of characterisation, dialogue, dramatic imagery, symbolism are all deliberate constructions that shape the distinctly visual and affect an audience's response. Throughout an individual’s life distinct experiences are always carried out which affect the choices and decisions individuals make. Composers like Henry Lawson born in 1867 created distinctly visual images that have clearly sketched in the readers mind through the use of vernacular language, black humour, descriptive language and metaphors. Texts like The Loaded Dog (1901), In a Dry Season (1892) and Joe Wilson’s Courtship are examples of how distinct experiences can …show more content…
Lady Feeding the Cats follows a two-sonnet structure consisting of 14 lines. Stewart utilises varied rhyming schemes and poetic techniques euphony, personification, descriptive language, rhyme and romanticism. The structure of the poem is a sonnet with no fixed rhyming scheme. The title of the poem is often a significant guide to its meaning and here the contrast between ‘lady’ and ‘cats’. Lady alludes to upper class, posh and beauty. The irony being displayed is that she shouldn’t be feeding the cats. The vivid descriptive language Douglas utilizes, “her long dress green and black like a pine in the rain”, symbolizes her hidden mysterious figure. It also signifies her link to nature. Stewart is focusing on the interaction between human beings, animals and nature. Douglas’s close observation of animal behavior dominates the first sestet. “Proudly they step to meet her; they march together with an arching of backs and a waving of plumy tails.” Again, the verbs are crucial for the visual impact. The cats symbolize the royal court. The rhyming couplet in the last stanza, “the times are hard for exiled…. To be queen of the cats,” suggest that although migration can result in civilization rejecting the individual, reverting to nature provides an honorary status and a royal one. Douglas has represented an empathetic tone for the lady feeding the cats. Audience visualise the perfection and beauty Australian nature features. This shows an outright contrast with Lawson’s text The Drovers Wife as it conveys the lifelessness and aridity of the Australian outback and how a disconnected bush women from civilisation without her husband survives the bush with just her