Journey the North Coast highlights how an individual’s experience can promote a reassessment about one’s own identity due to the differentiating perceptions in comparison with the world. This is evident in the media res opening phrase “The next thing” which delineates the broader journey of discovery, which the responders are plunged by the nostalgic mood. However, the place functions as a catalyst for his reconnection to identity as “Country bursts open on the sea”. The persona’s appreciation of the landscape is exemplified through Gray’s utilisation of figurative language as the physical journey prompts older memories of home in examining his connection with the constraining nature of civilisation. Thus, through the use of first person, it enables the audience to vicariously exert this reconnection due to the rediscovery of
Journey the North Coast highlights how an individual’s experience can promote a reassessment about one’s own identity due to the differentiating perceptions in comparison with the world. This is evident in the media res opening phrase “The next thing” which delineates the broader journey of discovery, which the responders are plunged by the nostalgic mood. However, the place functions as a catalyst for his reconnection to identity as “Country bursts open on the sea”. The persona’s appreciation of the landscape is exemplified through Gray’s utilisation of figurative language as the physical journey prompts older memories of home in examining his connection with the constraining nature of civilisation. Thus, through the use of first person, it enables the audience to vicariously exert this reconnection due to the rediscovery of