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i've looked up the essays online and stuff but i need quick analyses for my extra texts for all u pro-englishers out there ^^
my prescribed text is 1984...
I have okay notes but here's my prescribed text:
ICI Building (Bruce Dawe)
Like that enigmatic edifice, the defaulting
company director, this smooth functional
building says to the quizzing eye: 'No comment.'
To every query proffers the same
blank answer: 'All issues relevent
to the public will be tabled at
the forthcoming meeting of the Board...'
What goes on behind this bland display
of rock-bottom confidence, these seventeen storeys
of kept stenographers, lavender-smocked
concubines and white shirt-sleeved
Rothmans-smoking eunuchs?
(Human affections like investors pause,
seeking a sign where no sign will be given).
Anarchic, wind
rattles acres of plate glass,
probes chromium frames;
at night, in the public gardens opposite, a tiny human with a rifle fires
in defence of something barely understood,
exposing a swindle of gargantuan proportions
which all the sunset dividends declared
and sunrise bonuses cannot make good.
Hopeless as tears the plate glass falls
in response to those explosive sobs.
* * *
It's supposed to represent the power of big corporations, and the individual's attempt to overcome empowerment... can someone explain? especially the bit about sunrise dividends...
Oh and stuff on the power of theocracy (ie of church) in Arthur Miller's the Crucible would also be great~
thanks soooo much in advance....
my prescribed text is 1984...
I have okay notes but here's my prescribed text:
ICI Building (Bruce Dawe)
Like that enigmatic edifice, the defaulting
company director, this smooth functional
building says to the quizzing eye: 'No comment.'
To every query proffers the same
blank answer: 'All issues relevent
to the public will be tabled at
the forthcoming meeting of the Board...'
What goes on behind this bland display
of rock-bottom confidence, these seventeen storeys
of kept stenographers, lavender-smocked
concubines and white shirt-sleeved
Rothmans-smoking eunuchs?
(Human affections like investors pause,
seeking a sign where no sign will be given).
Anarchic, wind
rattles acres of plate glass,
probes chromium frames;
at night, in the public gardens opposite, a tiny human with a rifle fires
in defence of something barely understood,
exposing a swindle of gargantuan proportions
which all the sunset dividends declared
and sunrise bonuses cannot make good.
Hopeless as tears the plate glass falls
in response to those explosive sobs.
* * *
It's supposed to represent the power of big corporations, and the individual's attempt to overcome empowerment... can someone explain? especially the bit about sunrise dividends...
Oh and stuff on the power of theocracy (ie of church) in Arthur Miller's the Crucible would also be great~
thanks soooo much in advance....