LostAuzzie
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This is the Essay I wrote for the trials, it got 12. Could I get some advice and comments on it:
The imaginative journey is one in which we escape our own reality and are invited to acknowledge a new reality within our own imagination. Some aspects of such a journey are realistic and possible while others are fantasy and could only occur in the imagination. The imaginative journey offers a chance for change and discovery offering insight into past, present and future. The texts we read and the images we see represent the ides of what is realistic and what is imaginative about their journeys in their own ways. The poems of Coleridge use the style of romantic poetry of the time they were written. The book cover of The Ivory Trail offers an artistic representation of the journey with images superimposed for added effect. The movie The Butterfly Effect co-directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Grubber is based on the chaos theory in which every little occurrence leads to a bigger event. The TV Show Lost follows the lives of fourteen survivors of a plane crash placed in unrealistic circumstances on a strange island. In each of these there are realities and possibilities along with those unrealistic.
The poems of Coleridge were written in the Romantic period and thus, they have elements of nature imagery throughout. “This Lime-tree Bower My Prison” is a poem in which Coleridge takes an imaginative journey to be with his friends on their Journey. It is unrealistic for him to go on the journey but through the imagination anything is possible. In his journey he learns that “Nature ne’er deserts the wise and pure”, nature will always be for those ho seek it. He starts off with a negative view of his situation, “This Lime-tree Bower My Prison”, metaphorically describing it like a prison. As he takes the journey his opinion changes to a more positive one and he finally learns the lesson that he can still appreciate nature in his current situation. “Frost at Midnight” is one in which Coleridge reflects on his past and resolves to make his son’s future better than his own “Thou my babe, Shalt wander like a breeze by lakes and sandy shores” using the simile of his son wandering like a breeze for added effect. Travelling back to his past is not physically possible but reflecting upon it is.
The book cover The Ivory Trail by Victor Kelleher shows a journey which is realistic and possible. The positioning of the images is important as the head down the bottom, with eyes gazing is indicative of the imaginative journey. The other images are placed above indicating that the eyes are gazing towards them and that this journey is possibly one of the mind. The text at the top of the cover “Not all journeys have an ending” is important to the imaginative journey, as an important idea in the imaginative journey is that there are no limits to the imagination and anything is possible. However, this statement is unrealistic as it is generally believed that all journeys must end somewhere with an arrival at the end. It is possible that this statement is simply referring to the continuity and limitlessness of the imagination
The Butterfly Effect, based on the chaos theory, offers a very unrealistic interpretation of the journey. The idea of travelling back in time is impossible in real life. However the idea of changing your future, through the present, is possible and a reality. The imaginative journey is represented by a blurring of the image on screen, a flash of light and the audience is in the main character, Evan’s, past. Through taking these Journeys the character eventually learns that he must die for things to be ‘right’ He has “no soul, no lifeline” he was “never meant to be” This idea is also unrealistic as every human existence was meant to be in existence.
The TV Show Lost takes its viewers on an imaginative journey complete with polar bears, wild boars and a secret revealed piece by piece. These circumstances are unrealistic in real life but through the imagination they are possible. It is an imaginative journey for the characters as they reflect upon their past as well as the plane crash they survived. In one particular episode, one of the characters, Locke, is reflecting on an experience with a woman claiming to be his mother. This leads onto the dream sequence in which Locke sees a plane crash, and this woman pointing in its direction. Locke sees this as his sign and travels in the direction to eventually find the plane. A previous quote of his “Impossible is a relative term…especially on this island” is central to the imaginative journey in which anything is possible.
The imaginative journey is an escape from reality which offers change, discovery and lessons for ones future. It involves realities and possibilities but as anything is possible in the imagination, many of the circumstances are unrealistic.
The imaginative journey is one in which we escape our own reality and are invited to acknowledge a new reality within our own imagination. Some aspects of such a journey are realistic and possible while others are fantasy and could only occur in the imagination. The imaginative journey offers a chance for change and discovery offering insight into past, present and future. The texts we read and the images we see represent the ides of what is realistic and what is imaginative about their journeys in their own ways. The poems of Coleridge use the style of romantic poetry of the time they were written. The book cover of The Ivory Trail offers an artistic representation of the journey with images superimposed for added effect. The movie The Butterfly Effect co-directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Grubber is based on the chaos theory in which every little occurrence leads to a bigger event. The TV Show Lost follows the lives of fourteen survivors of a plane crash placed in unrealistic circumstances on a strange island. In each of these there are realities and possibilities along with those unrealistic.
The poems of Coleridge were written in the Romantic period and thus, they have elements of nature imagery throughout. “This Lime-tree Bower My Prison” is a poem in which Coleridge takes an imaginative journey to be with his friends on their Journey. It is unrealistic for him to go on the journey but through the imagination anything is possible. In his journey he learns that “Nature ne’er deserts the wise and pure”, nature will always be for those ho seek it. He starts off with a negative view of his situation, “This Lime-tree Bower My Prison”, metaphorically describing it like a prison. As he takes the journey his opinion changes to a more positive one and he finally learns the lesson that he can still appreciate nature in his current situation. “Frost at Midnight” is one in which Coleridge reflects on his past and resolves to make his son’s future better than his own “Thou my babe, Shalt wander like a breeze by lakes and sandy shores” using the simile of his son wandering like a breeze for added effect. Travelling back to his past is not physically possible but reflecting upon it is.
The book cover The Ivory Trail by Victor Kelleher shows a journey which is realistic and possible. The positioning of the images is important as the head down the bottom, with eyes gazing is indicative of the imaginative journey. The other images are placed above indicating that the eyes are gazing towards them and that this journey is possibly one of the mind. The text at the top of the cover “Not all journeys have an ending” is important to the imaginative journey, as an important idea in the imaginative journey is that there are no limits to the imagination and anything is possible. However, this statement is unrealistic as it is generally believed that all journeys must end somewhere with an arrival at the end. It is possible that this statement is simply referring to the continuity and limitlessness of the imagination
The Butterfly Effect, based on the chaos theory, offers a very unrealistic interpretation of the journey. The idea of travelling back in time is impossible in real life. However the idea of changing your future, through the present, is possible and a reality. The imaginative journey is represented by a blurring of the image on screen, a flash of light and the audience is in the main character, Evan’s, past. Through taking these Journeys the character eventually learns that he must die for things to be ‘right’ He has “no soul, no lifeline” he was “never meant to be” This idea is also unrealistic as every human existence was meant to be in existence.
The TV Show Lost takes its viewers on an imaginative journey complete with polar bears, wild boars and a secret revealed piece by piece. These circumstances are unrealistic in real life but through the imagination they are possible. It is an imaginative journey for the characters as they reflect upon their past as well as the plane crash they survived. In one particular episode, one of the characters, Locke, is reflecting on an experience with a woman claiming to be his mother. This leads onto the dream sequence in which Locke sees a plane crash, and this woman pointing in its direction. Locke sees this as his sign and travels in the direction to eventually find the plane. A previous quote of his “Impossible is a relative term…especially on this island” is central to the imaginative journey in which anything is possible.
The imaginative journey is an escape from reality which offers change, discovery and lessons for ones future. It involves realities and possibilities but as anything is possible in the imagination, many of the circumstances are unrealistic.
