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    Bruce Dawe Poetry

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    In what ways would you characterise Dawe as an Australian poet? Illustrate your answer in some way detail with reference to three poems. Bruce Dawe‚ a well renowned Australian poet was born in 1930 in Geelong‚ Victoria. He was an altogether indifferent pupil and left school at the age of sixteen working mostly as a labourer for the next ten years. However‚ he finished an adult matriculation course at night school and‚ in 1954‚ entered the University of Melbourne. He remained at Melbourne for only

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    Segregation in the 1930’s Segregation has always been around for many years and been a huge issue. Segregation means the "practice or policy of keeping people of different races and religions separate from each other" (Google.com). To some people‚ segregation was a good and a correct thing to do but for some it’s bad and just wrong. For example‚ Martin Luther King Jr. he was against segregation but didn’t use violence. On the other hand‚ we have Malcolm X he was also was against segregation

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    "The Whipping‚" by Robert Hayden This poem is about Hayden who hears a boy being beaten‚ recalls his childhood when he too was subjected to the same and notices that this form of punishment has been handed down from generation to generation. He uses visual and auditory imagery together to take the reader to different moments in time‚ where the same event is being played over and is put in six quatrains to add emphasis. In the first quatrain‚ Hayden hears a woman "shouting to the neighborhood

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    Eulogy for a Veteran Author Unknown Do not stand at my grave and weep I am not there‚ I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow I am the diamond glint of snow I am the sunlight on ripened grain I am the gentle autumn rain When you awaken in the mornings hush I am the swift uplifting rush of quiet birds in circled flight I am the soft stars that shine at night Do not stand at my grave and cry‚ I am not there‚ I DID NOT DIE

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    Poetry essay

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    Explore how perceptions of belonging and not belonging can be influenced by connections to places. Belonging refers to the acceptance of a common culture and traditions and the adoption of these practices into ones own personality. A common view of belonging is that it becomes manifested due to connections to a place‚ and a homogenous‚ undifferentiated culture. This belonging is thus felt because of assimilation and espousal of a common language‚ culture and way of life. This view is expressed

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    poetry analysis

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    In the short poem‚ “Wild Geese”‚ Mary Oliver speaks to the reader through the poem informing the reader that being good doesn’t matter. That we all make mistakes in life and we all have regret. Olihat what matters is that we don’t spend all our tiur imagination and free us from our anguish anorld has to offer. Oliver compares human emotions to nature itself and creates In the first stanza‚ Mary Oliver uses imagery and a hyperbole to get her meaning across. In the first line‚ Oliver informs the

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    How does the poet vividly convey ideas concerning the influence that nature has upon man? Compare and Contrast at least two poets from cluster one giving detailed close analysis throughout. (Comparison of ‘Overlooking the River Stour’ by Thomas Hardy and ‘Landscape’ by Michael Longley.) Equally ‘Overlooking the River Stour’ by Thomas Hardy and ‘Landscape’ by Michael Longley portray to the reader that nature can consume and influence mans’ behaviour. They also both highlight how easily things can

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    Poetry Criticism

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    Write a critical appreciation of the poem INCENDIARY by Vernon Scannell. You should comment on theme‚ diction‚ tone and structure. An incendiary is a bomb which sets things on fire‚ which gets across the idea that the boy was like a dangerous weapon‚ ready to explode at any time. This poem is about a boy who sets a farm on fire in hope that he receives the attention he has been longing for. In the first line‚ the poet describes the boy to have a face “like pallid cheese”. This simile is depicts

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    Poetry Analysis

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    In the poem “An Echo Sonnet”‚ author Robert Pack writes of a conversation between a person’s voice and its echo. With the use of numerous literary techniques‚ Pack is able to enhance the meaning of the poem: that we must depend on ourselves for answers because other opinions are just echoes of our own ideas. At first glance‚ the reader notices that the poem is divided into two parts in order to resemble a conversation. When reading the sonnet for the first time the reader may make the mistake

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    Loss In Poetry

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    How the poets explore the concept of loss in “Mid-Term Break” and “Mother any Distance” In this essay‚ the concept of loss will be discussed in the poems “Mother‚ Any Distance” by Simon Armitage and “Mid-Term Break”; which is an autobiographical poem by Seamus Heaney based in Northern Ireland which looks at denial and regret felt in loss whereas “Mother‚ Any Distance” explores the loss in the relationship of a family. The metaphorical use of “counting bells knelling classes to

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