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This is a practice journey essay. could I please get some feedback and a mark out of 15. Mind the grammar, I had to rush it and it took me 42 minutes. THANKYOU!
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Imagine a radio station is running a program about journeys and their consequences. It has invited an expert on your prescribed text to appear on the show. The expert is to discuss how the composer has represented the imaginative journey and its consequences in the text.
Write the script for the radio program. In your answering refer to your prescribed text, ONE text from the BOS booklet and ONE text of your own choosing.
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Interviewer (INT): Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Im host Brian Mckain on KBBL and tonights hot topic is journeys and their consequences. So what is a journey? A journey, according to the Macquarie dictionary defines an act of traveling, which may be in the form of physical, inner or imaginative. The one I’m most intrigued about is the imaginative journey, which can transcend reality into realms of speculation, pure imagination and inspiration, and shall be the main focus of today’s discussion. Joining us are Mr. Harvard, expert on Coleridge poetry and author of Where the Wild Things Are (Wild Things). How are you fellas?
Harvard: Fine
Maurice: Very well
INT: Well, let's begin shall we. Harvard, since you've been studying Coleridge for the past 20 years, what can you say about Coleridge’s way of representing the imaginative journey and its consequences
Harvard: Well Brian, we can only discuss this if I use specific examples. Let’s begin with Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Rime). You see Brian, Coleridge represents the concept of the journey in Rime first through the Mariner’s physical sea voyage, which is part of an extraordinary journey of the imagination that is subject of the poem. This voyage, after the thoughtless killing of the albatross turns into a supernatural nightmare journey into guilt and blame.
INT: I see
Harvard: these escalade into physical and mental torment of the Mariner and his crew after the horrifying appearance of terrifying apparitions personifying “Death” and “Nightmare Life in Death”.
INT: what techniques are used by Coleridge to depict this torment?
Harvard: Well the physical torment of the mariner is depicted through repetition and irony, “water water everywhere now any drop to drink”, while the Mariner is subject to “woeful agony;’ and mental torment. Colerdige also conveys this mental torment through repetition, “alone alone all all alone”.
INT: So what are the consequences of these experiences?
Harvard: Ah, I was just getting there. You see, the mariner’s release from these hardships is a result of his sudden instinctive capacity to see beauty within living things that he wasn’t able to do when the poem began. “I blessed them unaware” and the albatross, now symbolic of redemption, “falls like lead into the sea”. So basically, the consequence is that the Mariner undergoes a mental and spiritual inner journey. Mentally he suffered from starvation and near death, but spiritually, he comes to an understanding of nature and his spirit. This is basically the moral underlying this imaginative poem, that all creatures of divine origin should be treated with reverence, “to love things great and small”.
INT: that is certainly a magnificent poem. But yes, have you studied any other poems that may have broadened your understanding of the concept of the journey?
Harvard: well, Rime’s depiction of the journey and its consequences was mainly based upon the lesson learnt through obstacles and hardships. In this Lime tree Bower my prison, the concept of the journey is portrayed differently.
INT: how?
Harvard: well, in Rime, it was the Mariner’s physical journey that led him on a journey of the imagination. However, in lime-tree, it was the poet’s INABILITY to go on a physical journey that liberates him on a journey of the imagination. I find it ironic that this journey of the imagination allowed him to do beyond the restrictions of the physical world to commune with him friends, God and nature in all its variety.
INT: I’m guessing that maybe Coleridge was aiming at conveying the power of the imagination?
Harvard: EXACTLY! Here Coleridge tries to convey the idea that much can be gained from meditation and exercise of the imagination.
INT: so what did Coleridge gain?
Harvard: well, the consequence of his imaginative journey was that Coleridge was able to see the bower itself a microcosm of the beauty of nature that he had earilier imagined as a large panorama. We witness this through his change of tone from petulance to joy, in which the originally detested “this lime-tree bower my prison” is later affectionately evoked. Basically, the moral is that the beauty of nature is anywhere and everywhere if you are “awake to love and beauty”.
INT: so through exercise of the imagination, Coleridge was able to gain knowledge and insight to life? Isn’t that a similar vision that you tried to bring out in Wild Things Sendak?
Sendak: Well you see, Wild Things is my most famous children’s book, and what I tried to do is take the reader on a make-believe journey into a boy’s imagination. I tried to broaden one’s knowledge on how children get by through certain situations. And yes, I do bring out the idea of the exercise of one’s imagination to gain knowledge.
INT: how did you do this?
Sendak: the imaginative journey is mainly based around Max’s journey to the Land of Wild Things. I used the technique of picture against text here to reflect the dominance of his imagination. Max undergoes this voyage because he tries to cope with the boredom of being punished in his room and it was through this voyage that he learns the true nature of his behaviour. He treats the Wild Things as he was treated, and through this, he matures as he finally slips out of the wolf suit, which represented the role he has played throughout the book.
INT: I’m aware that this is part of the technique of anthropomorphism. Is that right?
Sendak: yes. I gave the Wild Things human attributes of Max to comment on his behaviour.
Harvard: I believe that technique was used in Wind in the Willows
Sendak: yes I believe so. When you come to think about it, that story also presents an interesting view on the concept of the journey.
INT: how so?
Sendak: well, Toad’s latest idea to travel is his journey of the imagination as he seeks adventure into the unknown. “Travel change interest excitement”, his enthusiastic tone is achieved by short sharp sentences which depict eagerness.
Harvard: also, Rat is unwilling to step outside of his “comfort zone” for fear of the unknown
Sendak: yes so the story thus brings out 2 different views on the prospect of the journey and thus two different attitudes in life. The consequence of this is that we the reader gain insight into different opinions in life and also the strengths and weaknesses of human nature.
INT: Interesting. Well, I’m sorry fellas, but that’s all we have time for. Thank you Harvard, thank you Sendak.
Tune in tomorrow when we discuss transformation and its consequences.
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Imagine a radio station is running a program about journeys and their consequences. It has invited an expert on your prescribed text to appear on the show. The expert is to discuss how the composer has represented the imaginative journey and its consequences in the text.
Write the script for the radio program. In your answering refer to your prescribed text, ONE text from the BOS booklet and ONE text of your own choosing.
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Interviewer (INT): Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Im host Brian Mckain on KBBL and tonights hot topic is journeys and their consequences. So what is a journey? A journey, according to the Macquarie dictionary defines an act of traveling, which may be in the form of physical, inner or imaginative. The one I’m most intrigued about is the imaginative journey, which can transcend reality into realms of speculation, pure imagination and inspiration, and shall be the main focus of today’s discussion. Joining us are Mr. Harvard, expert on Coleridge poetry and author of Where the Wild Things Are (Wild Things). How are you fellas?
Harvard: Fine
Maurice: Very well
INT: Well, let's begin shall we. Harvard, since you've been studying Coleridge for the past 20 years, what can you say about Coleridge’s way of representing the imaginative journey and its consequences
Harvard: Well Brian, we can only discuss this if I use specific examples. Let’s begin with Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Rime). You see Brian, Coleridge represents the concept of the journey in Rime first through the Mariner’s physical sea voyage, which is part of an extraordinary journey of the imagination that is subject of the poem. This voyage, after the thoughtless killing of the albatross turns into a supernatural nightmare journey into guilt and blame.
INT: I see
Harvard: these escalade into physical and mental torment of the Mariner and his crew after the horrifying appearance of terrifying apparitions personifying “Death” and “Nightmare Life in Death”.
INT: what techniques are used by Coleridge to depict this torment?
Harvard: Well the physical torment of the mariner is depicted through repetition and irony, “water water everywhere now any drop to drink”, while the Mariner is subject to “woeful agony;’ and mental torment. Colerdige also conveys this mental torment through repetition, “alone alone all all alone”.
INT: So what are the consequences of these experiences?
Harvard: Ah, I was just getting there. You see, the mariner’s release from these hardships is a result of his sudden instinctive capacity to see beauty within living things that he wasn’t able to do when the poem began. “I blessed them unaware” and the albatross, now symbolic of redemption, “falls like lead into the sea”. So basically, the consequence is that the Mariner undergoes a mental and spiritual inner journey. Mentally he suffered from starvation and near death, but spiritually, he comes to an understanding of nature and his spirit. This is basically the moral underlying this imaginative poem, that all creatures of divine origin should be treated with reverence, “to love things great and small”.
INT: that is certainly a magnificent poem. But yes, have you studied any other poems that may have broadened your understanding of the concept of the journey?
Harvard: well, Rime’s depiction of the journey and its consequences was mainly based upon the lesson learnt through obstacles and hardships. In this Lime tree Bower my prison, the concept of the journey is portrayed differently.
INT: how?
Harvard: well, in Rime, it was the Mariner’s physical journey that led him on a journey of the imagination. However, in lime-tree, it was the poet’s INABILITY to go on a physical journey that liberates him on a journey of the imagination. I find it ironic that this journey of the imagination allowed him to do beyond the restrictions of the physical world to commune with him friends, God and nature in all its variety.
INT: I’m guessing that maybe Coleridge was aiming at conveying the power of the imagination?
Harvard: EXACTLY! Here Coleridge tries to convey the idea that much can be gained from meditation and exercise of the imagination.
INT: so what did Coleridge gain?
Harvard: well, the consequence of his imaginative journey was that Coleridge was able to see the bower itself a microcosm of the beauty of nature that he had earilier imagined as a large panorama. We witness this through his change of tone from petulance to joy, in which the originally detested “this lime-tree bower my prison” is later affectionately evoked. Basically, the moral is that the beauty of nature is anywhere and everywhere if you are “awake to love and beauty”.
INT: so through exercise of the imagination, Coleridge was able to gain knowledge and insight to life? Isn’t that a similar vision that you tried to bring out in Wild Things Sendak?
Sendak: Well you see, Wild Things is my most famous children’s book, and what I tried to do is take the reader on a make-believe journey into a boy’s imagination. I tried to broaden one’s knowledge on how children get by through certain situations. And yes, I do bring out the idea of the exercise of one’s imagination to gain knowledge.
INT: how did you do this?
Sendak: the imaginative journey is mainly based around Max’s journey to the Land of Wild Things. I used the technique of picture against text here to reflect the dominance of his imagination. Max undergoes this voyage because he tries to cope with the boredom of being punished in his room and it was through this voyage that he learns the true nature of his behaviour. He treats the Wild Things as he was treated, and through this, he matures as he finally slips out of the wolf suit, which represented the role he has played throughout the book.
INT: I’m aware that this is part of the technique of anthropomorphism. Is that right?
Sendak: yes. I gave the Wild Things human attributes of Max to comment on his behaviour.
Harvard: I believe that technique was used in Wind in the Willows
Sendak: yes I believe so. When you come to think about it, that story also presents an interesting view on the concept of the journey.
INT: how so?
Sendak: well, Toad’s latest idea to travel is his journey of the imagination as he seeks adventure into the unknown. “Travel change interest excitement”, his enthusiastic tone is achieved by short sharp sentences which depict eagerness.
Harvard: also, Rat is unwilling to step outside of his “comfort zone” for fear of the unknown
Sendak: yes so the story thus brings out 2 different views on the prospect of the journey and thus two different attitudes in life. The consequence of this is that we the reader gain insight into different opinions in life and also the strengths and weaknesses of human nature.
INT: Interesting. Well, I’m sorry fellas, but that’s all we have time for. Thank you Harvard, thank you Sendak.
Tune in tomorrow when we discuss transformation and its consequences.