Physical Journey
             It is said that 'a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step' or 'Explore when you have the time, then you'll have time when you explore', ' there are goals and meaning in our journey - but it is the road, that makes it worthwhile' and 'an end to a journey toward is good - but it is the journey that matters, in the end'. A physical journey is not only a movement from a location to another but a process of growth, an enhancement of a person's being and the leader to experiences and challenges. Peter Skryznecki through the poems 'Crossing the red sea' and 'Immigrants at Central Station', 'The ivory trail' from the stimulus booklet and the lyrics 'The journey' by 911 illustrates the aspects of journeys and how the discretion to GO physically or mentally is the determine factor of the outcomes of that particular journey achieved or failed, these are clearly portrayed through the use of language features.
            
             Skryznecki "Immigrant Chronicles" reflect on the immigrant experience. A sense of dislocation and the conflicting pull of heritage, the old worlds with the new are all consequences of the physical journey taken by the migrants. Through the use of strong images, emotions and emotive language. Peter Skryznecki creates a personal account of the migrant's experience and his own journey both literal and metaphorical.
             "Immigrants at Central Station", Skrzynecki shows that a journey never ends by presenting to the reader a frozen image in an overcrowded train station where the new arrivals remember the bleak memories of the Holocaust. They huddle together closely, in uncertainty as they sheltered from the damp and cold, expressed by emotive language in "the silence, the cold', 'upturned collars', and 'children by their side'. The painful memories of the Nazi regimes in Wo...