Exploring Literary Devices in Dorothea Mackeller's 'My Country' Poem, Study Guides, Projects, Research of Literature

Download Exploring Literary Devices in Dorothea Mackeller's 'My Country' Poem and more Study Guides, Projects, Research Literature in PDF only on Docsity! MY COUNTRY by Dorothea Mackellar ● Purposes of this lesson: - This lesson is a logical following to the one about Australia. Learning a bit of literature helps foreigners to get the country sensibility - Understanding the compound nouns and adjectives. - Learning some literary words. - studying the shades of the colour words - Using an appropriate software to illustrate a poem and explaining how using it - Meeting an Australian poet...which is a rare opportunity in Europe MY COUNTRY by Dorothea Mackeller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hquYbyViZzI Act n° 1: answers and Act n°2 find their translation in a dictionary ● Shaded ● Ordered ● Sunburnt ● Ragged ● Barked ● Misted ● Hearted ● Loved Act n°2 (answers) ● Shaded ● Ordered ● Sunburnt ● Ragged ● Ring- Barked ● Sapphire-Misted ● Opal-Hearted ● Loved ● Ombragé ● Ordoné ● Brulé par le soleil ● Déchiqueté, accidenté ● Encerclé d’ écorce ● À la brume couleur de saphir ● Au coeur d’ opale ● aimé Act n°3: Explain how they are composed ● Shaded ● Ordered ● Sunburnt ● sweeping ● Ragged ● Barked ● Misted ● Hearted ● Loved Grammar point n° 2 ● Take a look at the following words and observe them: - jewel-sea - tree-tops Grammar point n° 2 ● Take a look at the following words and observe them: - jewel-sea - tree-tops →they are composed of two words linked by an hyphen ● But some other forms exist: - two separate words: rain forest - a single word: rainbow Act n° 4: Lexical difficulties ● Coppice ● Dim ● Stream ● Otherwise ● Drought ● Flood ● range ● Stark ● Hush ● Tangle ● Ferns ● Lithe ● Coil ● Soaking ● Drumming ● Threefold ● Paddock ● Filmy ● Veil ● Gaze ● Wilful ● Lavish ● thoughts ● Homing Act n° 8 : working on lexical fields ● 1) Quote all the colours in the poem ● 2) Find all the words linked to nature Act n°8 answers and act n° 9: use them in sentences using at least one of the words of each columns ● Green ● Grey-blue ● Brown ● White ● Sapphire ● Gold ● Blue ● grey ● Field ● Coppice ● Woods ● Gardens ● Mountains ● Plains ● Tree ● Soils ● Brushes ● Skies ● Clouds ● Rain ● Rainbow ● Earth Context of the poem writing and clues to help its understanding ● Dorothea Mackellar was born on 1st July 1885. She was an Australian poet and fiction writer. Mackellar was educated at home and began writing at a very young age. Her best-known poem is My Country, written at age 19 in 1904, while homesick in England; ● The title 'My Country' immediately converses up images of the unique countryside and diverse oceans. ● The poem begins with Mackellar describing another country. This is because she has portrayed it as "ordered woods" and “soft, dim skies". But then she continues and the tone becomes more of a love affair with Australia with Mackellar saying "My love is otherwise". This brings to mind Australia's natural assets. The beauty is in the abundant and varied landscapes. “otherwise” is a key word which allows the author to change the described place. ● My Country is a rhyming poem, fourteen stanzas in length. The opening two stanzas describe the British landscape, but this is not the country the young Dorothea Mackellar yearns for. The genre is part of bush poetry and does not tell a story. ● This poem deals with nature descriptions about Australia. It was written in order to inform people about the beauty and the wilderness of this country. Dorothea Mackellar’s ‘My Country’ is a poem expressing her deep passion and love for her country, Australia. The whole poem’s intention seems to evoke the sense of praising for the country. ● Literary devices: - - - -Onomatopoeia : “drumming of an army” creates a feel that soldiers are marching to the beat of nature; -Alliteration - "lithe lianas", "flood, fire and famine". The use of alliteration helps to emphasize the characteristics of Australian rural life. -Imagery: An example of this is "of droughts and flooding rains". This describes Australia as cruel in times of droughts and unpredictable in the rainy season. -Personification: By using words like, "she" and "her" the poet personifies Australia. The audience gets a feel that Australia is not just lifeless piece of land. Act n° 10: CROSSWORD 7 iz 7 ACROSS DOWN 3. Is formed by words 4 Figurative or descriptive beginning by the same language in a literary consonant work, 4 The attribution of 2 Word that imitates the human characteristics to sound of what it means, things, abstract ideas Act n° 10: Crosswords: answers ‘i fo mM) [LN Al [o cl [mM AT i sfef eal tl iol R} [1 y} [o P ‘Plelets|ol life] fell tl ifoln E | A  INTERMEDIATE TASK: each group takes a paragraph in charge and tries to translate theses few lines The love of field and coppice Of green and shaded lanes, Of ordered woods and gardens Is running in your veins. Strong love of grey-blue distance, Brown streams and soft, dim skies I know, but cannot share it, My love is otherwise. I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror The wide brown land for me The stark white ring-barked forests, All tragic to the moon, The sapphire-misted mountains, The hot gold hush of noon, Green tangle of the brushes Where lithe lianas coil, And orchids deck the tree-tops, And ferns the warm dark soi An opal-hearted country, A wilful, lavish land All you who have not loved her, You will not understand though Earth holds many splendours Wherever I may die, I know to what brown country My homing thoughts will fly Core of my heart, my country Land of the rainbow gold, For flood and fire and famine She pays us back threefold. Over the thirsty paddocks, Watch, after many days, The filmy veil of greenness That thickens as we gaze Core of my heart, my country! Her pitiless blue sky, When, sick at heart, around us We see the cattle die But then the grey clouds gather, And we can bless again The drumming of an army, The steady soaking rain.