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 is acknowledged as ‘they’ were met with
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Bruce Dawe Poetry- Many of Bruce Dawe’s poems have a heavy message and a bleak meaning relating to society’s weaknesses and downfalls. “Enter without so much as knocking” is a poem that is critical of consumerism in the modern world. The poem itself is a story of one man’s life‚ from birth till death and is a satirical look at modern society and its materialism. The poem begins with the Latin line “Memento‚ homo‚ qui‚ pulvis es‚ et in pulverem reverteris.” This means in English “Remember you are
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which often leads people to obsessively consume vast amount of products. The concept of Consumerism however‚ have been negatively depicted within Bruce Dawe’s ‘Americanized’‚ ‘Televistas’ and a film ‘confessions of a shopaholic’ . Bruce Dawe’s americanized satirises the predominance of consumerism on American values‚ the title itself is ironic as Dawe purposely uses American spelling to spell americanized‚ using the letter ‘z’ instead of ‘s’. The use of extended metaphor has been displayed in the
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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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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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Homecoming by Bruce Dawe The Vietnam War was the “unpopular” war and was intensely criticized by the Australian people for the reasons stated in the poem‚ Homecoming‚ by Bruce Dawe. In the poem “Homecoming” by Bruce Dawe‚ Dawe identifies his personal concerns of the Vietnam War and then presents them through the use of poetic techniques. It is clear to us that Dawe’s foremost concerns are that of the number of dead‚ the lack of respect and the dehumanisation of the dead‚ and the careless attitude
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Bruce Dawe explores the complexities of modern life in Homo Surburbiensis and Enter Without So Much as Knocking. Dawe conveys the ideas through references to everyday life and what the protagonists experience throughout their lives. The author’s perspective on life is contradictory in the pair of poems and this is shown through the use of imagery‚ description of the characters and the tone of his language. In both poems‚ the main characters are not seen as individuals but are used as metaphors to
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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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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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POETRY CAN OFFER US COMPELLING INSIGHTS INTO PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND PUBLIC ISSUES. HOW HAS DAWE EXPLORED THESE SEPARATE THESE DIFFERENT REALMS. Bruce Dawe is a famous and iconic Australian poet; his poems feature his numerous personal experiences and opinions about the futility and brutality of war. Bruce Dawe oft questions the need and validity of war; he talks about the dehumanization and utter brutality the young Australian men face. The poem "Homecoming" raises the public issue of military
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