April 2010
'New Music' by Gwen Harwood
who can grasp for the first time
these notes hurled into empty space?
suddenly a tormenting nerve
affronts the fellowship of cells.
who can tell for the first time
if it is love or pain he feels,
violence or tenderness that calls
plain objects by outrageous names
and strikes new sound from the old names?
at the service of a human vision,
not symbols, but strange presences
defining a...
English Extension 2 (Short Film) A Snippet of my...
Monique Ross year 12 St Andrews Cathedral School - 2011
The role of violent media in distorting universal perceptions of humanity, remains an issue commonly bypassed in the 21st century bustle of everyday life, only fervently debated by impassioned scholars, politicians and the occasional concerned parent. It is presently a topic of detached concern, and is often shrugged off as an irreversible...
year 11 extension english short story
TOUCHED
It is nearly midnight and the lights in the warehouse of my brain are slowly diminishing. All night I have sat here forcing myself to create some sort of withering saga of mystery or despair to satisfy your bleak need for predictable literary drama. I have rapped my pen on the table compulsively, feeling doubt lingering in the shadows somewhere close and agitating my focus. Another light...
the words running off my minds mouth, shedding their printed bodies in a sudden savage leap of comprehension.
