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it seemed to me that the novel seemed very forced in it's portrayal of convention. the literary allusions and rigid structure seemed very excessive and ostentatious (excuse the spelling) James' descriptions were wonderful, and her ability to incorperate her clues was very intriguing, although i...

lol, well at least ur teacher is keeping an eye on u. my teacher talks to me once every two weeks and just says 'yep, keep doing what ur doing'...so obviously we have a really strenuous criteria to meet at our skool :p

i'd like to pick your collective brains for a minute.... i was given an assessment due in a little while in which we were meant to write a speech, given the focus: It is more important for success to follow the conventions of a crime fiction sub-genre than to consciously create a piece of...

Having not conducted any real investigation into the novel (apart from a first reading) it does seem a little bit all over the place. but out teacher had given us prior warning that Anils ghost was sort of like a curve ball in the HSC, where we really have to apply what we know in determining...

don't worry, i'm incredibly incoherent when talking about things like that too...i'm scared, but just use your logbook as much as possible, thats what our teacher told us

'the sensation on my fingertips...the attraction of things i cannot see. if the dreams, of a thousand poets, each more beautiful than the last, fail to explain, the same, inexplicable thing, that she is, she was, always will be, beautiful...beautiful to me.' *cough* *cough* excuse me, i was...

ouch, that good? does everyone feel as though their concepts are fairly clear at this stage?

hey everyone, i havent seen a post appear on here in some time. how is everyone coming along with their works? is anyone at the stage of preparing for their Viva Voce?

well that's easily solves....dont be logical! thats the first thing ive learned in my work, just categorise it out of existence, breaking things down into cliques and classification is part of the human nature, and really, if the we realised how contradictory we all are, the world would explode...

yeah, it's crazy hey. like you said, it's so erratic and stuff, so you kinda can't control it. but i think my concept lets me write lots aswell, because all i'm doing is simply listening to bands and listening to rhythms while writing poetry to match. besides, one of my statements is that poetry...

maybe you could ask what popular culture actually is? is it the beliefs or behaviour of the majority? and what is the antithesis of that? individualism? is this perception and stereotyping categorising us out of existence? maybe pop culture is a paradox in itself, everyone does not want to admit...

is it reiteration? or does that just mean repeating something? no? reverberate? resonate? too many R's...

umm they kinda vary a little bit. There are lots of different structures and things in it, so some are ballads, folk songs, lyrics, free-verse, sonnets, streaming sort of prose, so some are as short as around 30 or 40 words, though some are maybe around 200 words or more. Lot's of them are very...

yeah, as part of our proposal we were expected to include a working title, and since then (which was i think around mid november) my title hasnt changed. i'm not sure how much my theme and my work will change, but i feel it is fairly set in stone, since it is a very very broad concept. i had...

hey everyone, i was just wondering whether anyone has been giving any thought as to what they may be titling their work. has anyone been contemplating anything or if you have do you have some kind of explanation as to why you chose it?

i probably have not done as much as i should have either, although i guess i am fortunate that my concept has remained unchanged since the beginning. it was kind of a natural progression because i had been inspired to write through music before we commenced the HSC course, so i've been refining...

i may add another from our studies of poetry in year 11, we were instructed to write a sonnet as part of our studies: child, where is the ribbon in your hair? that i have grown to love, where the smile? i think not even the cold winter air could burn my heart out - or dry those green eyes...

wow, both of your works seem very complex in expression and in the relationships between physical and metaphysical elements, im afraid whatever i could offer might not be the same in that regard, but i might offer this one... I've seen enough to know but can that save your soul? or can it...

ummm there is a very good website for performance poet Saul Williams. he is an african-american writer, actor, musician and poet, you could find his website at www.saulwilliams.com

i may have mentioned to some on a previous thread, but my concept is relating to music and it's contributions to the poetic form and how poetry is a correlation between rhythm and the spoken word. i was planning to examine the works of incubus, oasis, nirvana, bob dylan, jeff buckley etc. i am...