For those who completed the paper, which texts did you use for the 6 marker? Let's discuss!
Explain how the notion of journeys being an integral element of discovery is represented in TWO texts of your choosing.
For Q.4 I used texts 1 and 2. I said that it is through journeys that we have experiences which change/transform us, thus leading to discovery.
Text 1: explores how learning puts individuals on a never ending journey of accumulating experiences whereby discovery is met after each experience
- Lyrical repetition of motivic phrase "After a while you learn"
- "and you learn", "begin to learn" - the continual repetition/development of these lines suggests that learning is not something static. Learning changes the discoverer just as the line, as a motif, changes through the course of the poem
- On the journey to discovery individuals may be confronted by provocative discoveries - antithetical metaphor "even sunshine burns" - a representation that even hope and joy meets failure and defeat
- in facing confronting discoveries we learn and are thus set on a cyclical journey to the next discovery - an idea perfectly summed up in the last line "you learn..." where the ellipsis sustained a sort of lingered suggestion that the journey to discovery is ongoing and inevitable
Text 2: depicts journey from loss to actualisation in which the stages of this journey are what drive the persona to her discovery of acceptance
- confronting + blatant opening line "I just lost my job last week" - mirrors the sudden shock felt by the persona upon receiving the news
- imagery "I spent a lot of time crying" - grief + loss of hope as a development/ next stage of journey, from initial shock upon receiving the news
- the intervention of friendship compels the persona into acceptance = new perspective
- "it woke me up. I started laughing" - joyous imagery contrasts previous two stages of her attitude to the news
No clue if any of this is at all right, I have hardly if at all done any short answer practise
But I'm going to start now!!