Flashcards

Art of Travel

Brianna McCarthy English Higher School Certificate(HSC ) Inglês 9 flashcards

Flashcards do conjunto (9)

1On Anticipation- Uses emotive language in the imagery of winter London: dampness, death, forbidding, sadness
- interrupted by travel brochure, “Winter Sun”, - imagery of the imagined landscape: “relief, sweet, turquoise, I imagined there to be waterfalls.”
- Demonstrates power of anticipation in contrast between bleak imagery and the pleasant sensory language
2Happiness/ why to travel“Our lives are dominated by a search for happiness”
“We are inundated with advice on where to travel to; we hear little on why and how we should go.”
3Fulfullment” A Rebours” by Huysman: anticipates an imagined London, constructed by Dickens. In central Paris, on way to London, fulfils his thirst for the imagined London. Decides to return home: “How wearing it woud be actually to go to London… a person could travel so wonderfully sitting in a chair.”
4DB in BarbadosWhen DB arrives in Barbados, after two months anticipation, “Nothing was as I imagined”
5ThoughtJourneys are the midwives of thought
6On the exotic"I stopped by a red front door and felt an intense longing to spend the rest of my life there."
7FurnitureThe furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not
8MountainsSee how small you are next to the mountains...
9HospitalLife is a hospital in which every patient is obsessed with changing beds