City Of The Beasts

Discoveries help us interpret our world, whether they are of emotional, creative, intellectual, physical or spiritual significance. Robert Gray’s poems "Journey, the North Coast" and "North Coast Town" in conjunction with Isabel Allende’s novel "City of the Beasts" we see how discoveries allow individuals to interpret the world around them.

In Robert Gray’s poem “Journey, the North Coast” travel becomes a catalyst of self-discovery as the individuals come to interpret the world around them.
The self-discovery is explored as the narrator describes being on the train travelling to his home town which is very different to the city where he currently lives. The landscape outside his window prompts him to rediscover a more enthusiastic aspect

This is also conveyed in, "The trains shadow, like a bird, flee's on the blue and silver paddocks." The excitement of seeing his family is highlighted through the simile as it represents freedom, symbolising the poet letting go of the city and opening his mind to what's to come. The change in the poet is distinct when contrasted with his initial perspective of his hometown and how he remembers it with his newfound view since his self-discovery on the

Through Gray's poem ‘North Coast Town’ written in his perspective, we see that his discoveries allow us to interpret aspects of our own world. In the poem as Gray travels he discovers a new world that is contrasted with his individual world. Gray often uses repulsive imagery in his poem to demonstrate his negative physical discovery he has made in the town such as through the line, "Eat and floury apple, and stand about." This signifies the physical disgust of the place around him and the distaste he has for it. Gray's experience of discovering the new town has allowed him to experience a whole new world, one that he is not used to and has allowed him to value his personal