Go to http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/England/Windsor/Diana.html and copy the two page document into your own word file. Make sure the margins in your word file are large enough to place annotations.
We'll then annotate the biography together in order to look at how knowing the subject of a biography can impact on their expectations of a text.
Annotate the poem with the answers to the following questions.
ReplyDelete1) What significance lies in the use of Diana's title rather than her official royal title?
2) Describe the language used in the orientation. Is it formal or informal? What does the use of this tone achieve?
3) What does the sentence structure used suggest about the intended audience of this text?
4) How is language used throughout the poem to present the composer's perspective?
5) What is the function of the final paragraph?
People in her time used her title rather than her royal title because she was a people’s princess due to the fact she was respected people as a “normal human being” towards others as she respected them. The language used in the orientation as well as throughout the poem was formal. In the orientation the language was achieved by introducing Princess Diana and family, where she lived, when she was born and how she lived her life. Throughout the poem, it was both storytelling and descriptive, as different events is told differently sentence by sentence. As the last paragraph unfolds, this tells us that the death of Princess Diana was unpredictable, surprising and worldwide. Prince Charles stated in her funeral "the unique, the complex, the extraordinary and irreplaceable Diana, whose beauty, both internal and external, will never be extinguished from our minds.”. Although he divorced her, he loved her as an older brother and this tells the audience that her story touch the hearts of people, we us people rich or poor, big and small to treat each other as you wanted to be treated (unbiased).
ReplyDelete1)The significance of the use of Diana’s informal title was to represent Diana as someone similar to a normal person.
ReplyDelete2)The language used in the orientation is informal. This tone is used to achieve the portrayed image of Diana as a normal person of society and not someone who was a royal snob.
3)The sentence structure is a simple sentence where the sentence has just the one meaning. So the possible audience of this text would be anyone who are interested in the life of Princess Diana.
4)The composer of the text used words like devoted, tirelessly and beloved to describe Diana. No doubt that the writer is someone who admired her.
5)The function of the final paragraph is to outline the importance of her existence to the people (“Princess Diana’s sudden death led to an unprecedented worldwide outpouring of grief and love.”) and that she can never be replaced.