How has your understanding of the consequences of conflict been shaped by the techniques used by various composers? The film‚ Unfinished Sky by Peter Duncan together with the novel‚ Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta and Bruce Dawe’s poem‚ ‘Homecoming’‚ demonstrate that the consequences of conflict are exceedingly varied. The audio‚ visual and language techniques used by the composers throughout these texts allow an in depth exploration of the consequences of conflict. The texts show that
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anti-war attitude. Beach Burial ’ by Kenneth Slessor‚ Homecoming ’ by Bruce Dawe and Letter XV ’ by Bruce Beaver are famous Australian poems about war. The poems have many similarities‚ especially in content‚ but also have their differences. The subject matter of the poems is obviously generally the same. Most are about soldiers dying/dead because of a war. Beach Burial ’ is specifically about the WW2 battle at El Alamein‚ and Homecoming ’ is concerned with the effect of the Vietnam War‚ but
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Text Response: War Poetry Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen and Homecoming by Bruce Dawe are about the disaster of war‚ yet they speak of different wars with different mindsets of the soldiers. In the following essay I discuss the history behind the poems‚ the poetic devices that Owen and Dawe used. Each poem addresses their own truths about war. The first poem is from WW1 where ignorance was common‚ so common that boys of only 17 years were signing up for “the adventure of a life time”. The “adventure”
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society. ‘The new slavery is consumerism’ (Bryant H. McGill); people use consumerism to gain control and power. In Bruce Dawe’s poems Americanized and Abandonment of Autos‚ and Claire Carmichael’s novel Ads R Us‚ consumerism is conveyed as a trap that is a continuous and vicious cycle of replacing products with new and “better” things even if the old product still works. Dawe’s Americanized is an extended metaphor for the way that America has taken control of other countries through consumerism‚ and
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assumption of the modern world that there are things more important that the truth. The truth may also be covered up because it is difficult for people to cope with. These ideas are explored in Joe Wright’s film Atonement and the Poems ‘Homecoming’ by Bruce Dawe and ‘Mirror’ by Sylvia Plath. All texts are post modernism texts. In Joe Wright’s film Atonement the idea of the truth depends on an individual’s perspective is explored. The truth is many-sided and everyone’s perception of what they believe
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suggests divergent ideas when involved in variant contexts. The love poem‚ ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ by Robert Browning conflates passion and violence‚ reflecting notions of obsessions‚ hunger for ownership and abusiveness within a relationship whilst Bruce Dawe’s ‘Homecoming’ investigates the anonymity and insensitivity for the deaths of the soldiers involved in the war and the destructive characteristics of this concept. Nevertheless‚ the
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album "The Heist "2011. The Song is a powerful story about American youth and their struggle to find their way in a culture dominated by consumerism‚ obsession and wanting to be" Be like Mike". It relates to many of Bruce Dawe’s poems which Criticise Consumerism such as Americanized and The Not-so Good Earth. The song ’Wings’ is about the pursuit of identity through the means of consumerism "This Dream that they Sold to you..... Consumption in the veins". The song attempts to dissect our infatuation
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In this day and age‚ we are subjected to warfare. Terror and destruction I do not agree with the concept of war‚ but I understand the necessity of it‚ sometimes. Who am I to disagree with the beliefs of someone else? Most wars are fought because of a fundamental truth - beliefs. Whether it is religious‚ territorial‚ economical‚ it all begins with believing that it is right and just and being prepared to risk your life to defend your belief. I am sickened by the cruelty and waste of life and
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and persuasion to drive their consumers to buy their products which are not relevant to their needs. Through exploration of the psychology of advertising the five stages of life‚ advertising theories and techniques and the work of composers like Bruce Dawe and Macklemore provide an understanding of advertising by writing about how consumerism is being influenced in our daily lives. Consumerism is a phenomenon that was always immanent in the relatively developed societies‚ where people purchased
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