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    achieved culminating in an overall transformation physically‚ intellectually and emotionally. Within theses changes they are caused by unexpected detours or obstacles‚ new challenges or hindrances. The poems from the collection called “Sometimes Gladness” by Bruce Dawe portrays this like: “For The Duration” coveys this through the tedious attempts of men trying to escape jail‚

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    Module A Sometimes Gladness x 3 Poems + Additional Texts - Road to Paradise + The Gruen Transfer MUST DO 3 POEMS!! ONLY DO 2ND ADDITONAL TEXT IF YOU HAVE TIME!!! Introduction • Answer the question • State poems I am using Dialogue can be defined as an attempt by the writers to mimic spoken language‚ by using written language features to represent verbal language features. Dialogue can be direct‚ which is verbal‚ or indirect‚ which is shown through thoughts‚ non spoken‚ in novels

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    positives however it is ultimately the positives that triumphs. Both Bruce Dawe’s poems ’Husband and Wife’ and ’Drifters’ and Hannie Rayson’s Australian play Life After George explore and confirm this notion. Although Dawe’s poems were written in the context of the 50’s and 60’s and Rayson’s play was written in 2000‚ both works share similarities in their positive outlook on life but however have differences in their values of society. Bruce Dawe’s poem ’Drifters’ provides a positive outlook on life despite

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    within texts‚ or between text and the responder. Bruce Dawe uses dialogue‚ allowing us to share the different points of view from his characters; in the texts Pleasant Sunday Afternoon and Weapons Training we are able experience different perspectives through this dialogue. In a similar fashion‚ the mocumentary style comedy series Angry Boys by Chris Lilley shows us a variety of different views of the world. *** In the poem Weapons Training‚ Bruce Dawe expresses his particular view about military

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    living in suburbia with the other four-fifths of the population. This essay will cite specific examples of poems of a man commonly regarded as Australia’s greatest living poet from 1950 to 1990. Through Bruce Dawe’s poetry the true Australian persona has arisen to global knowledge. One of Bruce Dawes most famous poems‚ written in the 1950s‚ is Enter Without So Much As Knocking. In this poem he highlights the plight of a ’modern’ man who slowly comes to realize and embrace the façade surrounding suburban

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    English Speech Bruce Dawe Life is an ongoing cycle‚ forever trapped within the consumerism‚ legalism‚ and ruthlessness of modern society. Only through our fleeting innocence‚ purity and the appreciation of our natural world are we able to go beyond society’s harsh expectations and regulations that only end in the destruction of a person’s spirit. In Enter without so much as knocking Bruce Dawe comments on the materialistic character of Australian society in the 1950’s. During this period of his

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    “Language helps us to share other people’s experiences”. In Bruce Dawe’s poems Breakthrough and Life Cycle‚ they are often trying to persuade‚ inform or warn the reader of different things throughout the human life. This is done by translating his social beliefs and stands into poetry‚ using many language techniques to express his points. Some of these will be discussed throughout this critical response. In the poem Breakthrough‚ Dawe uses sarcasm and irony to inform his readers of how sickening

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    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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    In what ways would you characterise Dawe as an Australian poet? Illustrate your answer in some way detail with reference to three poems. Bruce Dawe‚ a well renowned Australian poet was born in 1930 in Geelong‚ Victoria. He was an altogether indifferent pupil and left school at the age of sixteen working mostly as a labourer for the next ten years. However‚ he finished an adult matriculation course at night school and‚ in 1954‚ entered the University of Melbourne. He remained at Melbourne for only

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    destination is the most important thing and never take into consideration what we learn on the way. Bruce Dawe expresses this idea of change in his poems ‘migrants’ and ‘enter without so much as knocking’. Dawe showcases both a positive and negative aspect of change by using poetic techniques such as personification‚ alliteration‚ metaphor and ellipsis. Journeys can be physical‚ emotional and inner. Bruce Dawe’s poem‚ migrants‚ portrays a long quest from the perspective of a migrant group. This group

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