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Where I Come From -
Elizabeth Brewster
- Structure
- Stanza 3
- 3rd stanza
with 2
lines, stand
apart
- Enter the
mind of the
poet.
- A glimpse at
the memory of
the poet
- A glimpse at
the memory of
the poet
- Enter the
mind of the
poet.
- 3rd stanza
with 2
lines, stand
apart
- General
- Free verses, no rhyme
- does not respect the
organisation that she
notices in the city
- does not enjoy
being restricted,
but rather wild
and free, like
the nature
- does not respect the
organisation that she
notices in the city
- Uneven length
- Free verses, no rhyme
- Stanza 1
- impersonal (objective)
and talks about
different
environments where
people come from
- Third
person
- Giving
facts, not
opinion
- General viewing
- General viewing
- Giving
facts, not
opinion
- impersonal (objective)
and talks about
different
environments where
people come from
- Stanza 2
- The second
stanza fits in with
the first one
- rural area and urban
cannot exist without
each other and they
support each other
- Urban area
provides rural
with jobs and
employment
- rural provides the
urban area with food
and raw material
- Urban area
provides rural
with jobs and
employment
- rural area and urban
cannot exist without
each other and they
support each other
- First person
- the
memories
of the
writer.
- the
memories
of the
writer.
- The second
stanza fits in with
the first one
- Stanza 3
- Main message/idea
- Message
- wherever people go and
travel in their life, they always
carry along with them parts
of their birthplace with them.
- The poet
expresses her
opinions upon
urbanisation and
the industrial
revolution.
- The poet
expresses her
opinions upon
urbanisation and
the industrial
revolution.
- Different people
Brewster had met
throughout her life. She
notes their backgrounds
and other
adventures/experiences
they have about
themselves.
- wherever people go and
travel in their life, they always
carry along with them parts
of their birthplace with them.
- Ideas
- The memories of the author
of every places that she has
travelled. From a Urban city to
the small rural area ←-- her
birthplace
- Criticise urbanisation
- Destroy nature
- Nature consist of
diversity - a factor that
create this world
- Her childhood
- Nature consist of
diversity - a factor that
create this world
- Destroy nature
- The diversity of the world
- Nature to urbanise
- Makes unique individual
- Makes unique individual
- Nature to urbanise
- The memories of the author
of every places that she has
travelled. From a Urban city to
the small rural area ←-- her
birthplace
- Message
- Notable quotations/techniques
- "People are made
of places"
- people are affected
with them by their
birthplace and their
character reflects the
area that they grow
up in
- Implies the
uniqueness that lies
in between every
individuals.
- people are affected
with them by their
birthplace and their
character reflects the
area that they grow
up in
- The description
of places
- List of natures
- "jungles or
mountains",
"tropic grace",
"cool eyes of
sea gazers"
- "grace"
= a
delicate
beauty
- Wild,
peaceful,
untouched.
Free spirit.
Diversity.
- "grace"
= a
delicate
beauty
- "blueberry
patches in
the
burned-out
bush"
- blueberries can still grow
=> the strength of nature.
At the end, nature has the
power to endure anything
- a delicious fruit,->
emphasis the
beauty of nature
- blueberries can still grow
=> the strength of nature.
At the end, nature has the
power to endure anything
- "clucking aimlessly
- No restriction
- a
contrast
of the
cities
described
in stanza
1.
- a
contrast
of the
cities
described
in stanza
1.
- No restriction
- "jungles or
mountains",
"tropic grace",
"cool eyes of
sea gazers"
- List of urbans
- "smell of smog",
"almost-not-smell of
tulips", "tidily plotted
- Smog= pollution from
factories, vehicles.
Suffocation?
- the city have been
so poluted that you
can't barely smell
the tulip
- Urban destroy nature
- Urban destroy nature
- "tidily
plotted" =
Planned by
human all
along
- structure, order and
lack of creativity.
- structure, order and
lack of creativity.
- Smog= pollution from
factories, vehicles.
Suffocation?
- "smell of work, glue factories"
- Everyone is in the wheel of work,
stress,..and "the glue factories" is the
metaphor for the fact that everyone
is stuck in the wheel and can't set
their mind free
- Everyone is in the wheel of work,
stress,..and "the glue factories" is the
metaphor for the fact that everyone
is stuck in the wheel and can't set
their mind free
- "smell of smog",
"almost-not-smell of
tulips", "tidily plotted
- List of natures
- "People are made
of places"
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