Analysis Of Bruce Dawe's Homecoming

Similarly, Bruce Dawe’s Homecoming emphasises on the ruthless and destructive power of politics during the Vietnam war. Dawe’s monotonous and mournful tone throughout the poem reflects his emotions towards warfare as it lacked historical sense and ultimately futile. Witnessing the Vietnam war first hand as a pilot Dawe’s uses the alliteration “All day, day after day” to create vivid imagery of the endless unidentified soldiers which are coming in. Allowing responders to comprehend the mass destruction and ruthless influence politics has over the individual to sacrifice life. Furthermore, Dawe dedicates three lines to the anaphora or “they’re” and repetition “them”, depicting a machine-like process of collecting bodies revealing the ghastly