My imaginative piece titled ‘Emotional Storm’ uses stylistic features to express the themes of loss, emotional release and acceptance. The purpose of my text is to share a perspective to my readers on how feeling vulnerable can lead to the betterment of oneself. It is inspired by Donna Tartt's statement on how “there are such things as ghosts...Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious”, as I embed the concept of memories within my piece. My piece is also influenced by Les Murray’s eye-opening poem in Module C, ‘An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow’ that uses stylistic features to challenge societal expectations towards vulnerable men through a society's reflection. Murray utilises visual imagery to demonstrate the expectations within society on vulnerable men when “The traffic in George Street is banked up for half a mile”. Society's lack of interest towards vulnerability is highlighted here, as raw emotion challenges their social constructs. Similarly, my piece also uses visual imagery to demonstrate my persona's response to his invulnerability as “without warning, he saw a droplet fall onto an image”, threatening the persona as he tried "to fight it back, but was incapable." This enhanced my ability to share perspectives to my readers on how resisting emotions can result in an emotional …show more content…
Similarly, in my piece a simile demonstrates the personas desperation to be “reunited with his daughter.. weight of the judge's hammer slamming down… echoed through his empty room like a screeching voice”, expressing how his desperation is also confined by another's opinion. This allows me to share perspectives to my audience on how one’s vulnerability should not be interrupted by the prevailing assumptions of