《essay about aus voice》安静如疯

4、kao..终于完成。。开背 Voice

　　Voice is not just the sound what we heard, it is also can be described as an opinion, a view or a perspective. Phrase ‘Australia voice’ can be included general opinions, and also the opinions of individual Australians. In Komninos’s poems, his opinions and thoughts about ‘Australia voice’ were presented by different techniques. Poems ‘thomastown talk’, ‘cobar, july 1993’, ‘back to melbourne’ and film Ned Kelly which was directed by Gregor Jordan are chose and discussed to present ideas of social injustice and landscape of rural Australia.

　　In poem ‘thomastown talk’ a voice of social injustice was presented by use one side dialogue. The whole poem is the male character’s voice to tell others how police beat him and treated him injust. Komninos wants to deliver his anger and bitterness of social injustice through this poem.

　　Repetition of phrase “believe me” is used in this poem to emphasise his voice and shows he is trying to convince the listener of the validity of his viewpoint.
　　As an informal way called police man, the word “copsmate” which is joined by slang “cops” and “mate” is also repeated to show his dissatisfaction towards the police man.

　　In this poem, Rhetorical questions such as “report it?” and “what can you do mate?” are used to emphasise the powerlessness of the character’s feeling.
　　These questions show his bitterness and anger about the brutality and injustice. But what else can you do than? Just keep silence and run away like the poem said “what can you do mate? Buy a ford!”.

　　Same as the voice is presented in poem ‘tomastown talk’, the problem of social injustice and police corruption also is mentioned in film Ned Kelly.

　　In the film, because his father was an Irish ex-convict, the whole family of Ned Kelly was treated unjust by police. After an incident which a police man tried to molest Kelly’s sister, Kelly and his friends can’t bear any more, they beat the police man and started the escape.

　　In the journey, in order to express his voice about social injustice and police corruption, Kelly did a public statement and sent the letter to government. Close up shots of Kelly, listeners and officers who received the letter are cut together. The quick changed images give strong visual impact to audiences and emphasized the voice presented by Ned Kelly.

　　The last scene of the film is a long shot shows a leaving train, the images of railway, bush and the people who were watching presented a landscape of rural Australia.

　　The landscape of rural Australia is also successfully descried in poems ‘cobar july 1993’ and ‘back to melbourne’. Both of these two poems express a voice of Australian life by using different techniques.

　　In poem ‘back to melbourne’, first person is used to create his own voice. As he drives down the highway from Sydney to Melbourne, he lists some of the well-known Australia images in his own words such as the huge statue “the big ram”, the graveyards “roadside tombs” and roadkill “splattered wildlife” to present the landscape of rural Australia. Also, alliterations “carlton cappuccino coffee comfort” and “manicured madonnas marching the streets” are used to show the leisurely life in Melbourne and voices his negative view of the Melbourne suburbs.

　　And in poem ‘cobar july 1993’, lots of descriptive words are used to form noun groups such as “veined rugged copper hands”, “difficult unbending boots”. These noun groups create the vivid images of life in an Australian outback town, with extreme summer temperature and semi-desert climate. Also, the present participle such as “walking”, “smoking”, “pissing” are used to convey the idea that these activities have been occurring for a long time and are continuing to occur. The life in here is little change.
　　From the words “durable waitresses”, “brawny cake stall ladies”, the stereotype of women of cobar is presented. They are strong, hard working and very supportive of their men folk. There is a big different between them and the woman Komnios describes in ‘back to melbourne’. A voice of different Australian lives is presented in these two poems.

　　Voice is an opinion, a view or a perspective. In above examples, through different techniques the Australia voice of social injustice and landscape of rural Australia are presented.