Journeys
Tibetan people believe if they walk long distances to holy places it purifies the bad deeds they commit. They believe the more difficult the journey, the greater the depth of purification. A journey typifies travel, the movement from one destination to another. Yet a journey offers much more as the Tibetans suggest, a physical journey is often aligned with an emotional and intellectual journey.Physical journeys alone will not carry one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.Peter Skrzynecki embraces the concept of physical journeys in his poetry, in particular the experiences of the European migrants. In his poems Skrzynecki delves into journeys on a physical level and consequently the emotional journeys are explored.One of Skrzynecki's poems, Crossing the Red Sea depicts the epic migration from one world, Europe to the new world, Australia. The physical journey is portrayed as an arduous voyage providing time for reflection on a forsaken past. The title of the poem is a biblical allusion that makes the connection between the Israelites escape to the 'promised land' and the migrants fleeing from war and dislocation to their own land of promise
The sinister simile "like cattle bought for slaughter' combines derogatory images and likens them to doomed livestock. Detailed graphics are used as an effective visual technique to strengthen the concept of journey. Journeys may take you from your troubled homeland to a new land of promise, you may travel to the highest country on earth and the most isolated, your journey may involve exploration of unknown places and exposure to danger. He aims to convey contrasting attitudes of the migrants onboard. They meet the challenge of exploration with some trepidation. Accompanying this graphic, the text expresses the " anxieties of the earliest travelers, who journeyed into the unknown fearful of monsters. Harrer pronounces "I didn't want a child so I ran away to climb a mountain ". The long hours at sea provided the migrants with the same opportunity to reminisce. Following an avalanche, Harrer's personal journey matches the migrants experience in crossing the red sea. It evokes a sense of slavery, despair and an overall act of de-humanisation. The voice over technique describes the physical journey Harrer endures by acquainting the audience with the 5000mile trek through freezing conditions and fierce storms, while also expressing his inward journey, his emotional growth. Harrer writes "so much time to question ones self is not good".
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