Essay – Bruce Dawe What is Bruce Dawe saying in ‘Breakthrough’ and ‘Televistas’ about the impact of the media on modern society? In your discussion show how the poem uses persuasive and poetic techniques to convey the viewpoint. There are many different ways for poets to get a message across to an audience about the impact of the media on modern society. The two poems that are closely being looked at are ‘Breakthrough’ and ‘Televistas’‚ both poems are by Bruce Dawe. Dawe brings out the
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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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Bruce Dawe’s new volume of poetry begins with a special dedication: a few lines of poetry about his sighting of four blind boys crossing the road‚ smiling‚ linked together with each one’s hands on the next one’s shoulders‚ "their thin canes waving eerily‚ like feelers‚ before them". It is a startling image. But then he delivers a double whammy. "I thought of ... all of us‚" the verse dedication continues‚ "alive to those of others‚ Faced with the headlong traffic of history‚ And bound to learn
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One of the later poets‚ Bruce Dawe saw this and reflected this in his poems‚ Life-cycle and homosuburbiences. He did this by portraying a man in homosuburbiences‚ who retreats to his garden‚ taking all his worries with him. ‘One constant in a world of variables’‚ Dawe writes. There are many reasons for a man to retreat to his ‘garden’ one of these reasons is because the world is changing to fast‚ as it did when the war took place. This is also showen in Life-cycle as Dawe writes‚ ‘They will not grow
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your every move and important lifestyle choices. Dawe demonstrates how something as simple as sport can be more important throughout a person’s entire life Poetry expresses an individual’s most intense emotions in the least amount of words. In the poems ‘Enter Without So Much As Knocking’ and ‘Life Cycle’ Bruce Dawe expresses what the true Australian perspective is in his straight forward way of telling people what living in Australia is like. Dawe highlights Australian society in the 1960’s in
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In “Homecoming”‚ poet Bruce Dawe uses vivid visual and aural poetic techniques to construct his attitudes towards war. He creates a specifically Australian cultural context where soldiers have been fighting in a war in Vietnam‚ and the dead bodies flown home. However the poem has universal appeal in that the insensitivity and anonymity accorded to Precious lives reduced to body bags are common attitudes towards soldiers in all historical conflicts. Although Dawe makes several references to the Vietnam
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Planning A Time Capsule Bruce Dawe As typical of these times I would include: a dirty needle and a rip-top can‚ pebbled glass from a windscreen‚ some spent cartridges‚ a singlet noose fresh from a prisoner’s neck‚ a pamphlet proving pornography is love‚ a flask of tears from battered women (laced with children’s blood)‚ a cassette-tape of cries from bitter tenants faced with rent-hikes‚ a food-voucher for the many hidden hungry‚ a door key to signify the homeless‚ and a colour-shot
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Bruce Dawe is strongly opposed to consumerism‚ as shown through his poem‚ Americanized. The poem is written in a predominantly bitter and ironic tone. The title itself is ironic. Bruce Dawe is Australian and has spelled the title using American spelling rather than Australian spelling‚ with the s’ being replaced by a z’. Stanza one is set in the morning at breakfast time. It involves the mother and her child. Instead of the usual loving mother‚ we see a cold mother and one that is doubtful of
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Bruce Dawe themes Bruce Dawe is a poet who inscribes not only controversial pieces of poetry but also poems that depict his own personal experiences in life. As many would say it Dawe is “an ordinary bloke‚ with a respect for the ordinary” because he writes as a delegate to the everyday Australian. The two poems that represent the daily themes of life are Katrina and Homecoming. Katrina is a poem concerning a young girl who is inevitably dying and her father who is undoubtedly grieving. It illustrates
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need to acquire objects and possessions often beyond our essential needs‚ just for the sake of acquiring them. This universal theme is made patent through two of Dawes poems‚ Americanized and Televistas 1977. Dawe is successful as he discusses and ultimately utilizes the theme of consumerism in a negative‚ derogatory way. Additionally‚ Dawes employment of techniques such as metaphors‚ rhetorical questions‚ repetition‚ figurative language and tone further enables the responder to understand themes which
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