Weapons Training Bruce Dawe ‘Weapons Training’ was written by Bruce Dawe. Who became one of Australia’s most well known poets in the 1960’s. In 1959 he joined the RAAF‚ Royal Australian Air Force‚ and left to become a teacher in 1968. As his occupation in the RAAF‚ Bruce served as an air force officer‚ a person of high rankings. And from his years fighting in the Vietnam War‚ and serving our country‚ Dawe – along with many others‚ wrote a substantial amount of protest‚ or anti-war poems. Many
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Bruce Dawe is one of the most inspirational and truthful poets of our time. Born in 1930‚ in Geelong‚ most of Dawe’s poetry concerns the common person. His poems are a recollection on the world and issues around him. The statement ’The poet’s role is to challenge the world they see around them’ is very true for Bruce Dawe‚ as his main purpose in his poetry was to depict the unspoken social issues concerning the common Australian suburban resident. His genuine concern for these issues is obvious through
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KARABAR DISTANCE EDUCATION ENGLISH FACULTY Assessment Task –Preliminary Course English Standard 2014 Task no: 1 Mail Date: 14/03/2014 Topic: ‘Gladiator’ – Representations of a Hero Weighting: 25% Language modes: Viewing/ Representing/ Writing Outcomes to be assessed: 1‚3‚5‚7‚12 P1: A student demonstrates understanding of the relationships between composer‚ responder‚ text and context. P5: A student describes the ways different technologies and media of production
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During the sixties‚ in the poem Homecoming‚ Bruce Dawe expressed a rather solemn‚ empty and somehow tranquil view of the impact the Vietnam War had on society. He writes in such a way that those who could not fathom or recognise the devastation it brought may now have the chance to comprehend it. The entire poem is a single sentence and the overall structure is unusual‚ with no rhyme‚ rhythm or pattern. This means the readers can read it as their own thoughts‚ enabling anyone who underestimated
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‘Drifters’ by Bruce Dawe Donald Bruce Dawe was born in 1930 in Geelong‚ Victoria‚ Melbourne‚ he is one of the most successful and prolific contemporary poets of Australia. He struggled with his studies‚ leaving school when he was sixteen‚ working as a gardener and postman. In 1954 he entered the University of Melbourne. He grew up in a household where his father‚ a farm labourer‚ was often unemployed and absent from home. The poem ‘Drifters’ by Bruce Dawe should be selected for the prestigious honour
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Bruce used dialogue to portray people‚ places and ideas in his poem to reflect on his personal values and moral. Discuss using o ne poem. Dialogue was explicitly employed in Enter so much without knocking written by Bruce Dawe to portray his personal values on consumerism in society. Through the employment of dialogue; people‚ places and ideas were portrayed to reflect on Dawe’s negative perception on the impact materialism has played in society through the epitome of a boy’s life from birth to
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Condolences of the Season “Identi-knitted out as fulsomely as the most wanted criminal” – The identity is relentlessly picked apart and related to other relatives as if he was a master criminal that everyone was trying to identify. Fulsomely - Unrelenting “Any means you choose to shake them off are bound to fail” – All the attempts that the child will make in its life to break free of their family heritage and become an individual will be futile‚ as the family members will always be able to identify
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Good morning/afternoon everyone. I am sure that many of you will agree with me‚ after studying and discussing in class war poetry‚ that war is destructive; it destroys properties and lives. It is also the meaning if not dehumanizing as Owen in his ’Dulce et Decorum Est’ has pointed out. The violence and destructiveness of war reduces men in the battlefield into something less than human; they are stripped of their dignity. Ultimately as Owen points out in his poem‚ war is senseless or futile. Whatever
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The poem "Homecoming" originates from Bruce Dawe. Its journey depicts the aspects of war and its devastations upon human individuals. Using mainly the Vietnam War as a demonstration for its destructions. Within this poem Bruce Dawe dramatizes the homecoming of Australian veterans’ bodies from Vietnam. This is clearly an anti-war poem‚ reproducing the sentiments of those who opposed the time when this war occurred. The poem starts of in what seems to be a monotone. With many simple verbs such
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world more clearly”‚ the poem “Enter Without So Much as Knocking” by Bruce Dawe‚ published in 1950 is true to this quote because it is outlining the passage from the hospital to the grave. It makes the reader realise that when you die you will eventually be forgotten‚ unless you have made an impact on the world. The persona in the poem is the man who’s being spoken about because it’s about his life‚ making him the subject matter. Dawe is a voice for the persona because he is telling the story about
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