Comparing Komninos And Big Brother
There are many different ways of living in our Multicultural Australian Society, but is there a right one? You could be either rich or poor, Catholic or Christian, skinny or fat, popular or unpopular, all of which are different ways of living. The poems which Komninos composes, the article written by Laura Demasi and the television show Big Brother, all explore the aspects of living in an Australian society and the affects they have on people.
You may not realise that the media has a major impact on people's perspective of themselves and others around them and also reflects and dictates cultural trends and ways of living. People who are attractive and popular tend to judge people who are overweight and nerdy' because they don't fit in with this class of people. Vegetarian, Vegan, Fast food …show more content…
The use of rhyme is also extensive, though it is sometimes reduced to half rhymes or increased to a single act of repeating the rhyme for a whole poem.
Both Komninos' poem kuranda, october 1992' and Big Brother, link self image, money and . Komninos' poem's provide a range of types of speech, using his own voice and often presents himself as an observer and listens. He visualizes the poet as one who is involved in life's experiences, but who also communicates those experiences in his poetry. In kuranda, october 1992, Komninos is a detached observer of others and himself, recording different ways of living in a restaurant bar in the rainforest resort. The oddity of his situation is captured in the opening line, I sit talking to myself'.
His alienation from the others in the restaurant and his satirical assessment of them is quickly established in the representation of the waiter as a bozo', a name for a clown. Other people are portrayed unattractively, a fat tanned woman' And their countries of origin, british backpacker
You may not realise that the media has a major impact on people's perspective of themselves and others around them and also reflects and dictates cultural trends and ways of living. People who are attractive and popular tend to judge people who are overweight and nerdy' because they don't fit in with this class of people. Vegetarian, Vegan, Fast food …show more content…
The use of rhyme is also extensive, though it is sometimes reduced to half rhymes or increased to a single act of repeating the rhyme for a whole poem.
Both Komninos' poem kuranda, october 1992' and Big Brother, link self image, money and . Komninos' poem's provide a range of types of speech, using his own voice and often presents himself as an observer and listens. He visualizes the poet as one who is involved in life's experiences, but who also communicates those experiences in his poetry. In kuranda, october 1992, Komninos is a detached observer of others and himself, recording different ways of living in a restaurant bar in the rainforest resort. The oddity of his situation is captured in the opening line, I sit talking to myself'.
His alienation from the others in the restaurant and his satirical assessment of them is quickly established in the representation of the waiter as a bozo', a name for a clown. Other people are portrayed unattractively, a fat tanned woman' And their countries of origin, british backpacker