Homecoming “Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” – Charles Swindoll. My high school years were the best. My freshman year I did very well in school. I made good grades and I played sports. My favorite sport was always volleyball. I’ve always dreamed of playing volleyball since I was in elementary school. We did well that season but did not make the play – offs. We were sad‚ but our coach told us to cheer up and that there always was next year. That same year I met a
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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‚ personification‚ visual imagery‚ alleratition and dualitites. Through dehumanising and depersonalising the soldiers in his poem ‘Homecoming’ Dawe has established a con-tem-pla-tive tone which
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plunges at me‚ guttering‚ choking‚ drowning.” With the uses of onomatopoeia in “guttering‚ choking and drowning‚” Owen accentuates the horrible suffering of the soldiers. Slide 6: While‚ Owens’ poem uses imagery to exemplify death‚ Dawe’s‚ Homecoming extensively uses personification to explore the coldness of death and war. As the soldiers’ dead bodies are returned from war‚ Dawe conveys the undignified treatment of the bodies‚ as they are closed “in green plastic bags”. Personification and
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independence day‚ and it continued for two months. They didn’t talk much‚ they just sent pictures back and forth. Ellie thought Travis would ask her to homecoming‚ but a couple of days before homecoming he stopped snapchatting her. He just ignored her‚ she grew a hatred towards him. He went to homecoming with his ex girlfriend‚ Emily went alone. After homecoming she drove to his house and egged his car‚ She did it two times after that. It was her way of saying f u to him. A month later‚ after a football
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When queen Victoria was young she was told she’d be queen. To which she responded “I’ll be good.” (Nelson). Even as a child Queen Victoria knew what type of Queen she wanted to be. She would learn‚ grow and eventually be ready to become Queen. Queen Victoria knew stepping into a high position of power would be difficult and that she would deal with wars‚ death‚ conflicts in society‚ and trouble growing the empire. She decided that she would be strong‚ helpful‚ and stand for compromise. Queen Victoria
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opposed to sitting back and putting up with it‚ she voiced her opinions and proved she could be a just and loyal queen. She suppressed her oppositions that didn’t support her as a result of her sex and made an assembled nation that was more grounded than when she entered her rule. She enabled women to have confidence and to not be treated like dirt and promoted equality by being a steadfast queen and demonstrating to the nation that she was pretty much as effective as any
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Homecoming by Bruce Dawe All day‚ day after day‚ they’re bringing them home‚ they’re picking them up‚ those they can find‚ and bringing them home‚ they’re bringing them in‚ piled on the hulls of Grants‚ in trucks‚ in convoys‚ they’re zipping them up in green plastic bags‚ they’re tagging them now in Saigon‚ in the mortuary coolness they’re giving them names‚ they’re rolling them out of the deep-freeze lockers – on the tarmac at Tan Son Nhut the noble jets are whining like hounds‚ they
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This year was the first time I have ever been to a dance in my life. During Homecoming week a few of my friends asked if I wanted to could go to eat and the dance in their group. Before this day I had always thought that dances were unneeded and an undesirable event to go to. But‚ by the time we went out to eat and went to the dance I could not believe how much fun I had at a dance. Being around with my friends and getting to see people over the weekend that I usually did not get to see except on
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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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