Robert Gray
Question: Poetry can help us think and feel in new ways about every day experiences. Show how four of Gray's poems offer a new prospective on everyday experiences.
One of the major effects of poetry is to take the reader to another place. To have one look at an everyday situation, and see another face to it. This is done by the imagist, . Through his poem, he gives the reader another view of everyday experiences such as Travel or Journeys, Work and the interactions with family to name a few. These everyday experiences are effected in a way, which changes the perspective of the reader if not for a second, then forever.
The first such example of travel is shown through out many of Gray's ...
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the area, the issue of change is raised as he himself, does not know the town any more, after the change. Gray uses the travels of this person, who has no identity except for that of a hitchhiker, to show how some people travel.
Though in North Coast Town, the travel is the main pillar of which the poem is supported. This is the crucial point of the poem, as this travel is shown in a new way, Gray is using his poetry to show a new side of everyday experiences. From the smallest journey, as the hitchhiker travels to the changing sheds, and is "stepping about on mud", although a familiar image, to begin to wash after is not. Some people's lives are based on this travel. The travel of the cars as they pass the Hitchhiker, "like a boxer warming up…spitting air", this simile again shows a new face to travel, from a new prospective. To the more final image of travel, as the hitchhiker has received a ride, and is "smoking past" the shops in the town, gives the perspective of a new type. ...
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broke a machine, after a stick slipped from his hand, and was grinded in the machine instead of the dead steaks. Gray uses the shocking images of the "sticky stench of blood", "chomping, bloody mouth" and "their dripping solidified like candle wax" to show the reader a new view of Working. The reader is soon to find that the worker puts up with this job to simple be able to live in his weatherboard house, in his little section of paradise. Gray gives a new prospective of the working adult, that sometimes people are forced to work in an area which they may fear, or even hate.
Although, this is not the only poem again which talks of a change in the view of work, the poem Flames and ...
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