Kenneth Slessor – Human Experiences Main Ideas & Deep Understanding

Resource Description

What are the main ideas in Slessors Poems Below?

Out of Time:

Key overarching Concept and human experience:

NOTE – IT IS THESE CONCEPTS THAT LINK WITH HUMAN EXPERIENCE AND CAN ANSWER QUESTION

• • Time is a force that can’t be controlled
  • Life, Death and Loss – The Cycle of Life
  • He attempts to capture the subjective human experience of a time passing (and experiences within) rushing our consciousness to oblivion, and the paradoxical feeling of eternity and immorality in the moment.

• Highlights the collective HUMAN EXPERIENCE’s of life and death as well as the subjectivity of it through the notions of pain, suffering and contrasted joy. 

Wild Grapes:

• Wild Grapes conveys the imagery of despondence
• It also articulates the idea of passing time; creating a haunting memory of lost potential and the unsettling human experience of lingering regret.
• Human experience of memory

Gulliver:

Gulliver explores the pain and discomfort of the human experience through a comparison of being alive to that of being incarcerated