Poem 2 - New Accents - English Sheets PDF

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Poem 2 - New Accents By Ouyang Yu Context: Speaker is recalling living in Melbourne in 1990s and having interactions w/ people who had Chine accents

Main Themes: -

Accents are unfairly ridiculed and new arrivals are unfairly judged even though they speak multiple languages Multiculturalism is central to Australian society, and migrants have uphill battles to overcome in order to be successful

Techniques: Technique

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Effect

Assonance

‘Spoke of the “antipodes” like “anti-pode-s” And lost my candidacy in Canton”

Has a aesthetic effect on the flow of the poem

Phonetic Spelling

‘Neechosen’, ‘Vegee table”

Pushes the effect of the accents affecting the English

Alliteration

‘C from Canton talked about criminal cases’

These people are perceived by only their origin, reflects the racist ideals of ‘go back to where you came from’

Extended Metaphor

“Anguish”

Is used as the phonetic spelling of English and also the anguish she felt at her labour

Tone

Stanza 1 and Stanza 4

Tone changes as they jump from person to person. Narrator has an observational tone, and C has a pensive and spiteful tone...