Physical Journeys - Bruce Dawe's Drifters and Last Seen 12:10am
Journeys offer challenges and insights.
How does the composer of the texts you have studied explore this concept?
Bruce Dawe’s texts Drifters and Last Seen 12:10am, convey different journeys that offer challenges and insights. Journeys can be defined as an act of travelling from one place to another. The physical journey evident in Drifters places emphasis on the fact that journeys can be forced. The text Last Seen 12:10am depicts that journeys can be inner struggle and offer challenges that bring uncertainty and fear. Hence it is evident that these two texts by Dawe demonstrate challenges and insights that travellers can have on a journey.
Bruce Dawe’s poem, Drifters, demonstrates that physical journeys are often difficult for a traveller to embark on. Leaving their home is seen as the journey in the poem, and offers many challenges to the travellers. In the line, “and the kids will yell “Truly?” and get wildly excited for no reason, and the brown kelpie pup will start dashing about”, Dawe is able to engage the reader and create an intimate atmosphere, through the use of vivid imagery and colloquial language. This paints a picture of the scene at hand and initiating a relationship between the family and the reader. These lines of Drifters express that although physical journeys offer challenges, they can also contain happiness and excitement of change.
Furthermore, Dawe’s poem, Drifters, shows there can be diverse opinions on the task of physical journey. The personas in the text continue to address the fact that physical journeys explore the concept of providing challenges and insights. This is stressed in the lines “and notice how the oldest girl is close to tears because she was happy here, and how the youngest girl is beaming because she wasn’t.” Dawe demonstrates how there can be varying attitudes towards physical journey by contrasting the two daughters opinions on the move. It shows how the oldest daughter is reluctant for change, while the
How does the composer of the texts you have studied explore this concept?
Bruce Dawe’s texts Drifters and Last Seen 12:10am, convey different journeys that offer challenges and insights. Journeys can be defined as an act of travelling from one place to another. The physical journey evident in Drifters places emphasis on the fact that journeys can be forced. The text Last Seen 12:10am depicts that journeys can be inner struggle and offer challenges that bring uncertainty and fear. Hence it is evident that these two texts by Dawe demonstrate challenges and insights that travellers can have on a journey.
Bruce Dawe’s poem, Drifters, demonstrates that physical journeys are often difficult for a traveller to embark on. Leaving their home is seen as the journey in the poem, and offers many challenges to the travellers. In the line, “and the kids will yell “Truly?” and get wildly excited for no reason, and the brown kelpie pup will start dashing about”, Dawe is able to engage the reader and create an intimate atmosphere, through the use of vivid imagery and colloquial language. This paints a picture of the scene at hand and initiating a relationship between the family and the reader. These lines of Drifters express that although physical journeys offer challenges, they can also contain happiness and excitement of change.
Furthermore, Dawe’s poem, Drifters, shows there can be diverse opinions on the task of physical journey. The personas in the text continue to address the fact that physical journeys explore the concept of providing challenges and insights. This is stressed in the lines “and notice how the oldest girl is close to tears because she was happy here, and how the youngest girl is beaming because she wasn’t.” Dawe demonstrates how there can be varying attitudes towards physical journey by contrasting the two daughters opinions on the move. It shows how the oldest daughter is reluctant for change, while the