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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Bruce Dawe’s poem‚ Migrants‚ portrays a long quest from the perception of a migrant group. The particular group is acknowledged as “they” as they were met with indifferences from the locals. “They” reacted to this treatment with surprise and confusion which is made evident in the line‚ “indifference surprised them..” which creates a sense of ambiguity and lack of identity. This mystified poem depicts feelings of ignorance as well as disinterest as “they” are treated with a lack of concern.
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TECHNIQUES USED IN BRUCE DAWES POEMS Alliteration: Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other. Onomatopoeia: Words that sound like their meanings. Repetition: The purposeful re-use of words and phrases for an effect. Rhyme: Words that have different beginning sounds but whose endings sound alike‚ including the final vowel sound and everything following it‚ are said to rhyme. Analogy: A comparison‚ usually something unfamiliar with something familiar
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Weapons Training by Bruce Dawe essay attempt In the poem‚ Weapons Training Bruce Dawe uses language forms and features to show war in an unfavourable light. Weapons Training is known as a anti-war poem. He uses dramatic monologue by an angry‚ racist drill seargent who expresses Bruce Dawes views on war through the use of rhetorical questions‚ structure‚ onomatopoeia‚ and racist and sexual language. Firstly‚ in Weapons Training it is obvious onomatopoeia is used to show exaggeration and to set
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English assessmnet task 1 Close study of poetry of bruse dawe Good Morning selection committee my name is and I am the editior of an anthology of the modern Australian poetry book. Today I will be discussing the way Bruce Dawe’s poems ‘Homecoming’ and ‘Lifecyle’ confront and challenge readers to re-assess or examine their lives and life its self. The way bruce dawe has made his readers reassess and examine their lives and life itself is by using techniques such as emotive phrases‚ repeitition
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realm of the academic to the scope of an everyman‚ and for good reason‚ one can say‚ if one considers its reputation for being complex and‚ to put it bluntly‚ boring. Of course‚ some poets‚ for example Bruce Dawe‚ deliberately write using the language of the general public‚ as to dispel what Dawe himself calls “’the Byronic Wildean archetype’‚ the image of the poet as an extraordinary and alienated person”1. Poetry often expresses the problems and views of suppressed or underprivileged groups‚ and
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numerous historical figures‚ such as poets. W. H. Auden‚ Bruce Dawe‚ Sylvia Plath‚ Carol Ann Duffy and S. K. Kelen‚ have all used various brief moments of human experience to explore emotions and ideas. Refugee Blues‚ Homecoming‚ The Gods Ash Their Cigarettes‚ Funeral Blues‚ Daddy and Little Red-Cap‚ have through tone‚ stylistic features‚ language devices and personas‚ expressed the idea they centre around. W. H. Auden in Refugee Blues and Bruce Dawe in Homecoming explore the idea that war has negative
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Homecoming by Bruce Dawe exemplifies and recounts the calamities of the Vietnam War in a dehumanising‚ confronting tone. The anti-war elegy was written in 1968 as a tribute to the return of the Australian veterans who died fighting in the Vietnam War. While protesting about Australia’s participation in the War‚ the poem also demonstrates the lack of identity and deference that was attached to the soldiers. The 25 line broken verse poem presented in a single stanza‚ speaks on behalf of the disrespected
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‘Homecoming’ by Bruce Dawe‚ is a protest poem written in free verse‚ which portrays the futility of war in a confronting tone. This poem represents the author’s negative view towards Australia’s involvement in the dehumanizing event. Bruce Dawe creates meaning through the use of language techniques‚ which metaphorically allow him to speak on behalf of the mute‚ dead soldiers. The title ‘Homecoming’ is used to contrast the traditional association of the word‚ with the shocking reality of war. In
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