The Poetry of Bruce Dawe Weapons Training The poem "Weapons training" composed by Bruce Dawe‚ explores the realities of war. The poem is situated in the period of the Viet-Nam war to prepare recruits for war. Dawe‚ uses a wide variety of techniques to further convey the harsh realities of war. The poem is a forceful text that is design to shock the audience and to bring out an emotional response. Bruce Dawe‚ writes poems on his own experiences in his life‚ living during many periods of conflicts
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Year 10 English Studies Essay: How does the poet use techniques to engage the reader? ‘War Without End’ and ‘Description of an Idea’ Bruce Dawe is a famous poet born in 1930. He incorporated similar techniques in his poems ‘War Without End’ and ‘Description of an Idea’. In the ‘War Without End’ the war is metaphorical and represented as the never ending car crashes and accidents on our roads every year whereas in ‘Description of an Idea’ the war is represented as a historical past event that was
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Bruce Dawe once said that‚ “we write out of a need to come to terms with some concern‚ or something “bugging” us.” From this statement‚ it is blatant that he expresses his emotions and morals through his poetry in attempt to share his views and concerns on contemporary issues of the world with the world‚ influencing readers to reconsider their values. The universal appeal of Bruce Dawes poems lie in the poet’s passion in speaking for those who have no means of speaking. In “The Wholley Innocent”
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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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action hero film co-written‚ produced‚ and directed by Christopher Nolan. It is Nolan’s second film based around the DC Comics character Batman‚ and the film is the sequel to the 2005 film‚ Batman Begins. Christian Bale returns to play the role of Bruce Wayne‚ the billionaire who defends Gotham City as Batman. Other returning cast members include Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox‚ Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth‚ and Gary Oldman as James Gordon. The film introduces new characters‚ including Heath
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Religious traditions? Bruce Dawe renowned for his amazing collective poetry has had many successful pieces of writing. One none could forget would be “And a Good Friday Was Had by All.” This historic poem is very controversial. The poet‚ Bruce Dawe uses persuasive language to show he is very strongly opinionated about the shift of the Australian culture away from the religious traditions. He highly believes that this shift is very well happening. It is plain to see that Dawe uses an Australian vernacular
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Bruce Dawe – essay In your view‚ what social issues are explored in Dawe’s poetry? Explain how these issues are developed and represented in two of his poems that you have studied! Bruce Dawe is a contemporary Australian poet from the late 1960’s to the early 1970’s‚ writing poems protesting against the issues occurring in society that he didn’t morally believe in‚ these issues are still relevant in today’s society. Dawe comes from a catholic back ground and is passionate towards his religion;
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Bruce Dawe‚ an Australian poet composed many of his poems focusing on entertaining as well as portraying the ‘common man’. His poetry presents and examines his dislike of authority‚ politicians‚ commercialism and consumerism and expresses concepts of modern and realistic themes. “Televistas”‚ composed by Dawe in the 1960’s entails the story of two personas that fall in love and develop their relationship in front of a recurring motif‚ a television. The poem dramatizes how human interaction and qualities
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written by Bruce Dawe. The themes these poems express include ‘strive for happiness and fulfilment and make the most of life. Another text that also displays these themes is ‘V For Vendetta’ directed by James McTeigue. The poem ‘Weapons Training’ written by Bruce Dawe is monologue from military instructor that is lecturing recruits on what to do in a battle situation. Dawe expresses his ideas about military life using techniques such as humorous tone and vivid imagery. Dawe uses humorous
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The poem Homecoming by Bruce Dawe describes the significance of the strong negative impact the Vietnam War has caused. He portrays the emotions and effects surrounding the homecoming of soldiers who have perished in the war. The main concept extracted from the poem is a moral outrage at the hopeless and senseless aspects of war. The author explores the fact that the soldiers who return from the Vietnam War were not respected or acknowledged in any way and that they’re lives were wasted. The poet
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