What is change and how is it represented and linked in the four texts - Here without you by 3 Doors Down, Spring Hail and The widower in the country by Les Murray and Sky High by Hannah Robert?

Change is inevitable, yet it can be denied depending on who and when they experience this change and also on the passing of time. Time can bring forth wanted and unwanted change. In 'Sky High' by Hannah Robert, Les Murray's 'Spring Hail' and 'The Widower in the Country' and 'Here Without You' by 3 Doors Down all demonstrate various aspects of how change is due to the passing of time, which is inevitable.

In the text, 'Sky High' by Hannah Robert, change is seen as something which is as a result of the change in time and how change can bring maturity. The persona is remembering back on how she changed from a carefree, innocent child to the mature, responsible adult that she is today. She reminisces her childhood by the washing line, which has also changed over time, like herself. She was closely attached to the washing line as she used to gain her so-called 'freedom' from 'flying' on it.

English: Australian poet Les Murray, photographed ...

Hail Showers in Spring

Helen & Hannah Roberts

Hannah Robert uses personification - "silver skeletal arms throwing long summer afternoon shadows" in order to highlight he relationship between herself and the washing line. It can be seen that the washing line was the important object in her childhood as that is the thing that she "remembers first".

However, now the washing line is no longer something which she can discover freedom from, as now, as an adult, she has so many responsibilities which do not allow her to be free and follow her heart. As she says -"so many things are tying me to the ground".

Imagery is also used to illustrate the physical change which has occurred to her and the washing line. As time has passed, her hands are now described as "beginning to accumulate the line-etched story of...