Essay On Kenneth Slessor – Out Of Time & Wild Grapes

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It Is a Writer’s Ability To Ignite Ideas About Human Behaviour That Allows Readers to Renew Our Perspective About Who We Are with reference to Kenneth Slessor\’s poetry and John Green\’s Fault In Our Stars.

Kenneth Slessor: Out Of Time & Wild Grapes

Through its range of poetic techniques from elaborate imagery to abstract metaphors, Slessor’s Out Of Time captures the human experience of the paradoxical sensation of mortality and eternity simultaneously, in relation to the universal experience of contemplating the eeriness of inevitable death. By exploring this paradoxical concept through his poetry, readers are challenged to rethink their own perception of time passing, rushing our consciousness to oblivion and our own purpose.