Anzac Square and the shrine of remembrance

Anzac Square
Located in the busy city centre of Brisbane is Anzac Square. Anzac Square was constructed to commemorate those who served Australia in a war. This essay will examine the war memorial in Anzac Square as a landscape and analyse the ways in which semiotics, culture and framing shapes the messages and feelings that the audience experience when visiting such a war memorial. The essay will concentrate on the areas of metonym, metaphor, intertextual, circumtextual and extra-textual framing, along with cultural knowledge, code and convention.
The lecture notes (week 8 2003) state that a landscape is an identity that people can recognise, inscribe and collectively maintain certain places or regions in ritual, symbolic or ceremonial terms; conversely these places create and express socio cultural identity. The Anzac Square Memorial is named ‘The Shrine of Remembrance” and is a rotunda made up of 18 concrete pillars. At the base of these pillars is black metal fencing and on t...