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    Bruce Dawe Speech

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    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 his poem ‘Enter Without So Much As Knocking’

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    The Not so Good Earth

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    Firdaus RAISA SIMOLA University of Joensuu‚ Finland In prisons‚ there are short-term and long-term prisoners‚ guilty and innocent people. Common to all of them is‚ however‚ that they have come to prison. Prisons generally have a shortage of material goods and shortage of positive external stimuli. But one thing is not lacking there: time. And time is the thing that prisoners in different ways try to shorten. For example‚ they start making journeys of the mind‚ mental journeys. What are the events and

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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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    Bruce Dawe - Americanized

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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 homecoming

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    POETRY CAN OFFER US COMPELLING INSIGHTS INTO PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND PUBLIC ISSUES. HOW HAS DAWE EXPLORED THESE SEPARATE THESE DIFFERENT REALMS. Bruce Dawe is a famous and iconic Australian poet; his poems feature his numerous personal experiences and opinions about the futility and brutality of war. Bruce Dawe oft questions the need and validity of war; he talks about the dehumanization and utter brutality the young Australian men face. The poem "Homecoming" raises the public issue of military

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    Homecoming by Bruce Dawe

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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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    The Not-so Good Earth

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    Count Camillo Benso Di Cavour Count Camillo Benso has done so many remarkable things in his lifetime. His life started when he joined the Turin Military Academy when he was 10 years old. Joining the Army when he was 17 showed me that he wanted to fight his way through the world. Even though he resigned from the army 4 years later because of boredom‚ he also left because he didn’t like the way the government was leading them into battle. Benso travelled around the world where he saw the places

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    bruce dawe consumerism

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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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    and our world more clearly”‚ the poem “Enter Without So Much as Knocking” by Bruce Dawe‚ published in 1950 is true to this quote because it is outlining the passage from the hospital to the grave. It makes the reader realise that when you die you will eventually be forgotten‚ unless you have made an impact on the world. The persona in the poem is the man who’s being spoken about because it’s about his life‚ making him the subject matter. Dawe is a voice for the persona because he is telling the

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    Bruce used dialogue to portray people‚ places and ideas in his poem to reflect on his personal values and moral. Discuss using o ne poem. Dialogue was explicitly employed in Enter so much without knocking written by Bruce Dawe to portray his personal values on consumerism in society. Through the employment of dialogue; people‚ places and ideas were portrayed to reflect on Dawe’s negative perception on the impact materialism has played in society through the epitome of a boy’s life from birth to

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