Unfamiliar Text on "Limestone" and "We Are The Tenants"

Choose 1 question for each text. Respond in your blogs.

“Limestone”

• Explain how the structure of the piece relies on the motif of journey (recurring references to journeys). Give details from the text to support your answer.

• Explain how contrasts of ideas are important in the passage. Give details from the text to support your answer.

“We are the tenants”

• With close reference to the text, discuss the poet’s use of imagery to describe the North.

• With close reference to the text, discuss the significance of the different verb tenses in the poem.

  
  

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  • Compare and contrast the ways the writers use pronouns to control viewpoint in each text. Give details from each text to support your answer.

  • Compare and contrast the attitude to departure and arrival presented in each text. Give details from the texts to support your answer.

We are the tenants 

In this poem we can see that the Kapka Kassabova is trying to convey the idea of hopelessness. What Kassabova was trying to portray in this poem is how some people experience extreme poverty and how these people do not have the power to control over their lives. Kassabova had used a group of immigrants who had the expectation of the North Island as being a peaceful and an easy place to live. The director had used a wide range of figurative language features in order for the readers to have that image of how disappointing it was being in their position up in the North. The director had used simile: "The hills are packed like cement." in this line we see how the director had emphasised the image of what the characters expectation to North. In this poem Kassabova had provided a wide range of figurative languages so that the readers would understand what the characters life was like in the poem. He also managed to convey the image of how their life is like compared to others. As he explains how they did not have a permanent house and they always move house that's why he quoted that "Old mails piles up, their lives were temporary". This tells us that their lives were full of disappointment and how they are so hopeless. The ideas in this poem is like what is going on in time places in this world. As more people are living in a poverty and they are hopeless.