Common Mod Quotes

WG - Individual Experience Quote

“In their harsh sweetness remind me somehow”

• Harsh Sweetness - Oxymoron = mixed sensation of taste reveals the mixed + bittersweet emotions of the memory (which is personal to persona)

• Remind me somehow - deliberately vague and inarticulate tone = shows how persona is unable to define their memories

  • Inexpressible nature of memories = unable to completely share = can never be collective experience

WG - Individual Experience - Idea/Angle/Thesis

How the immense complexity of memory is

1. personal

2. unable to be articulated

3. Only can be fully understood if you experience the event/person etc

4. Is shaped by our context and experiences therefore cannot be expressed

WG - Collective Experience Quote

(Hartigans or Mulligans) Long drowned in earth themselves”

• Metaphor - being killed by what sustains life - reveals the inevitability of death as we will be consumed by our earth

• Death is inexorable

• H & M are compared to the fruit that also ‘drowns’ in earth = emphasises the inevitability of death for all life forms

KEY WORDS

1. Articulate, inarticulate (expressing memories)

2. Inexorable - impossible to stop or prevent (death)

WG - Collective Experience Thesis/Angle/Ideas

• The inevitability of death for all life

• The connection between all life forms on earth is the inevitability of death

WG Human Qualities Idea/Angle/Thesis

As humans, we are able to reflect on our own existence makes us distinct from other life forms

• through reminiscing/memory

• Through reflecting on death and grief

WG - emotions Quote

Acid and Gypsy Sweet

• Antithesis - reveals the multifaceted nature of emotions - not linear or rigid but changes and can be ambiguous

WG - Insights Quotes

Half Savage with black fur

• Visual Imagery - represents primitive protective mechanism that shows that violence is fundamental in sustaining life (not only for humans but other life forms as well)

Kept no more by vanished Mulligans and Hartigans

• Colonial names - reveals context of colonial mass - took ownership then abandoned

WG - Insights thesis/angle/ideas

Innate/inevitable violence that occurs in human life/between humans

Connection to colonialism – European and Aboriginal People

WG - Storytelling s insights ideas angles

Storytelling can keep memories and things alive

WG storytelling quotes

Orahcrd that is “kept no more” is kept alive by the narrative tone of the story

Gulliver Paradoxes- Idea Angle Thesis

The idea that a physical prison is less isolating and helpless and the metaphorical prison of life

Gullible Paradoxes - Quote

“Honour of a dungeon”

• oxymoron - dungeon is a punishment for bad people vs honour is to acknowledge achievements of good people

• Emphasises how his metaphorical prison is so dreadful that a dungeon would seem honourable

Out of Time Individual Experience Quote

“Skulker Take Heart” “I thought my own heart said”

• personification of the heart

• Uncertain tone

• Shows how humans can become disconnected from themselves

• The explicit warning of “Skulker take heart” and then the uncertain tone reveals the danger of becoming disconnected from ourselves as we can miss warnings

Out of Time: See the world different quote

“Time, the wave… or time, the bony knife”

• Juxtaposition of the nature of time (flowing, calming vs sharp and dangerous)

  Personification of time (which is an abstract concept)

• Time is an external force that humans cannot change – it may pose a threat or may be a blessing

Out of time see the world differently thesis idea angle

Time is a constant that is unchangeable so humans can only change their relationship with time

vespersong - quote emotions

“Welt the sole”

 Double entendre – Soul, sole of shoe

Intensifies the personas feeling of being conflicted -              Does he deserve punishment or is he right in his actions

William Street individual experience quote

“You find this ugly, I find it lovely”

We are influenced by our pasts and personalities and consequently everyone has their own interpretations of things

The persona sees the street and its busyness as beautiful While someone else may not

WS - challenge assumptions

About prostitutes

“(Death and their elbows, hunger at their feet)”

Parenthesis

• Makes it like a second thought/side note that challenges readers to consider if they only see people as their external self or if they think about what could have led them to that point

WS challenge assumptions idea Nile thesis

• People are not inherently bad or good/ immoral or elite

Beach Burial quote collective experience

“Sand joins them together”

• All soldiers whether enemies or not are equal in death

Beach burial thesis angle idea collective experience

Inevitability and collectiveness of death