theme or topic in a particular way? Many of Bruce Dawe’s poems have a heavy message and a bleak meaning relating to society’s weaknesses and downfalls. In his free verse poem “Homecoming” Dawe promotes his ideas‚ attitudes and values about the Vietnam war to represent his negative perspective of war as a whole. This is evident through Dawes representation of war as a dehumanising conflict in where soldiers are given a lack of respect and honour. Dawe masterfully utilizes imagery‚ sound devices
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The universal appeal of Bruce Dawe’s poems lie in the poet’s passion in speaking for those who have no means of speaking. In "The Wholly Innocent" Dawe challenges his readers through a wilful determination to terminate the pregnancy of a healthy foetus. And in Homecoming Dawe questions the validity of war as he speaks of the untimely death of several adolescent boys who are brought home as dead soldiers. Through the use of persona in a dramatic monologue‚ vivid imagery‚ onomatopoeia‚ deliberate repetition
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‘Drifters’ by Bruce Dawe Donald Bruce Dawe was born in 1930 in Geelong‚ Victoria‚ Melbourne‚ he is one of the most successful and prolific contemporary poets of Australia. He struggled with his studies‚ leaving school when he was sixteen‚ working as a gardener and postman. In 1954 he entered the University of Melbourne. He grew up in a household where his father‚ a farm labourer‚ was often unemployed and absent from home. The poem ‘Drifters’ by Bruce Dawe should be selected for the prestigious honour
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Australian Poetry Bruce Dawe has used a variety of literary devices to represent specific marginalised groups in ways that challenge their reader’s perceptions. Two of his poems; ‘Homecoming’ and ‘Weapons Training’ are key and transparent examples of literary devices being utilised to represent specific marginalised groups. Both of these poems were set during the 1950’s‚ with Vietnam being written to represent soldiers pre-war and homecoming to represent soldiers returning to Australia. During
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living in suburbia with the other four-fifths of the population. This essay will cite specific examples of poems of a man commonly regarded as Australia’s greatest living poet from 1950 to 1990. Through Bruce Dawe’s poetry the true Australian persona has arisen to global knowledge. One of Bruce Dawes most famous poems‚ written in the 1950s‚ is Enter Without So Much As Knocking. In this poem he highlights the plight of a ’modern’ man who slowly comes to realize and embrace the façade surrounding suburban
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Landscapes can provide opportunities to reflect on the human condition. Do you Agree? Must discuss two Dawe poems and use ‘The Last Stop’ as a related text. Landscapes are diverse and therefore can provide opportunities to reflect on human condition. Basically the landscapes are all visible features of an area and have the ability to create memories or future events. Landscapes are the backdrop to all of lifes experiences and can essentially reflect upon the experiences of being human in a social
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“Language helps us to share other people’s experiences”. In Bruce Dawe’s poems Breakthrough and Life Cycle‚ they are often trying to persuade‚ inform or warn the reader of different things throughout the human life. This is done by translating his social beliefs and stands into poetry‚ using many language techniques to express his points. Some of these will be discussed throughout this critical response. In the poem Breakthrough‚ Dawe uses sarcasm and irony to inform his readers of how sickening
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Bruce Dawe‚ an Australian known poet‚ born 1930 is still one of the biggest selling and most highly regarded poets of Australia. His ability to write such influential poems has made an impact on a number of people‚ as each poem can be related to the ordinary living lives of Australians throughout the years. Bruce Dawe’s poems are interesting because they comment on the lives of ordinary people. This statement is agreed on. In relation to the statement‚ three key poems can be linked being Enter Without
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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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which often leads people to obsessively consume vast amount of products. The concept of Consumerism however‚ have been negatively depicted within Bruce Dawe’s ‘Americanized’‚ ‘Televistas’ and a film ‘confessions of a shopaholic’ . Bruce Dawe’s americanized satirises the predominance of consumerism on American values‚ the title itself is ironic as Dawe purposely uses American spelling to spell americanized‚ using the letter ‘z’ instead of ‘s’. The use of extended metaphor has been displayed in the
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