The Tuft Of Flowers And The Big World By Tim Winton

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It is definitely obvious that a person can be changed by the discoveries they make. This is shown in the poems "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" and "The Tuft of Flowers" by Robert Frost, and also in "Big World" by Tim Winton. In The Tuft of Flowers the (people telling the story) outlook on people are changed through the discovery of a family relationship. In the poem Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening the speaker discovers that he must change his original perceptions and fulfil responsibilities. In the text "Big World" the speaker discovers that he wants to turn his life around as he feels that his friend Biggie is influencing him too much on doing bad. At first the (person telling the story) produces (with magic) the excitement of …show more content…

However, the flowers are also a device for focusing on the connection between men. The speaker recognizes in himself the regard that led the lawns keeper to spare the flowers, and, with this recognition, he feels a bond between his values and the other man's values, between his work and the other man's work. Just as earlier he generalised his loneliness to (what it's like to be a human, and what we humans all go through); his joy now leads him to generalise his feeling of connection in purpose. The tuft of flowers serves as a sort of helping force for making up (from an argument) with people. The speakers search for a companion is externalised through his discovery of a 'wildered butterfly', but the hidden (under) scary repeating idea of a 'scythe' stands as a symbol of (being totally separate from others). However, the coming into view of full of life (putting pictures into your mind) of "a leaping tongue of bloom" in a symbolic way reflects a cheerful discovery of a possible companion. This discovery changes the speaker's (distrustful and suspicious of people) tone as reflected through the move/change to a full of life, retroperspective tone of "I told him from the heart, whether they work together or apart", which brings across a hopeful and well/pleasing self-discovery of family relationship which causes/starts (anger) a change …show more content…

The fluency of the first three groups of lines in a poem being an 'AABA' rhyming big plan/layout/dishonest plan and winter setting guesses (based on what's known) the hypnotic state of the speaker that has been caused by the woods. Frost shows a good example of the speakers want to escape responsibilities through the unbroken curve of rhythm in the second line as it shows/represents the flirty nature of the "farmhouse near" in the woods. It is through frost (existing as a perfect living example of something/creating a living representation of something) the horse through "my little horse must think it queer" which overshadows the unusual behaviour of the speaker as the speaker thinks things over carefully whether to enter the attractive woods- this is just like in Big World where winton uses the mother's (way of seeing things / sensible view of what is and is not important) to give/discuss something the reality of the (person telling the story)'s friendship with Biggie. The horse is also (existing as a perfect living example of something/created a living representation of something) as a symbol of warning to the speaker of the need to stay on task (even though there is the existence of) tempting other choices. However, the scary language such as 'darkest evening' brings across that the speaker is being

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