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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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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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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Weapons Training Responses The drill sergeant in the poem “Weapons Training” written by Bruce Dawe‚ is portrayed as a bully and a very moody‚ tough and angry character. Dawe has showed this through many techniques. For example‚ in the first stanza he insults one of the soldiers by saying “what are you laughing at you in the back row with the unsightly fat between your elephant ears”. This shows that he drill sergeant is a bully but also a teacher who wants the soldiers to concentrate as they will
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control.. The poems used to study dialogue were ‘Weapons Training’ and ‘Up the Wall’ by Bruce Dawe‚ as well as the additional text of ‘……’ by . In my exploration of dialogue in the two poems and the related text‚ it becomes apparent that gender and power differences may be expressed through the presence of dominant and silenced voices along with a broad range of representational techniques. Bruce Dawe uses dialogue manipulatively and effectively in his poem “Weapons Training” it is an
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normlessness – lack of social norms‚ cultural estrangement and social isolation. In the three chosen texts; “Enter Without So Much As Knocking” by Bruce Dawe‚ “Capitalism and Alienation” by Danielle Pioli and “ Be My Brother” by Geneueve Clay‚ alienation is forced upon the characters by external forces. In the poem “Enter Without So Much As Knocking” by Bruce Dawe‚ the alienation present is determined largely by external forces. This external force is consumerism‚ which causes the unnamed character to
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Sydney‚ Australia‚ and Harry Lavender‚ the antagonist of the novel and the boss of Sydney’s underworld. Day’s strong and clever use of techniques‚ effectively create a range of significant‚ distinctive voices. In contrast‚ "Weapons Training" by Bruce Dawe is able to create a very strong‚ distinctive voice that brings to life the character of a strong-minded‚ stern drill sergeant‚ as he delivers a monologue to all the young new recruits. Both texts have used a deliberate choice of techniques‚ and
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