Bruce Dawe
Texts provide us with a unique opportunity to allow us to view the world in different ways. We are able to empathize with characters and the author through the dialogue within the texts. Dialogue is speech in the form of conversation either between characters 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 life through the dialogue of the weapons trainer. The poem is in first person*** essentially the poem is a monologue. Dawe uses the structural technique of starting in the middle of dialogue “And when I say…” This indicates to the audience that the weapons trainer has been talking for a while and what he is about to say is important. Another structural technique used in the poem is enjambment, this is to hide the rhyming scheme of the poem so it is read as more of a natural dialogue, also it is said in one breath giving a sense of urgency.
The technique of repetition is used in the dialogue of the weapons trainer, which shows his view on the war. “Dead, dead, dead,” this quote uses repetition; it is at he end of the poem and shows the audience that this is a very serious matter. The dialogue is from the weapons trainer to the soldiers and he is drilling this message into in an attempt to scare them. The rhetorical question, “what are you going to do about it?” reveals to the reader that the solider has power over the other soldiers; also he is trying to regain their attention and assert his power.
In Pleasant Sunday Afternoon the dialogue of the father reveals his particular view of the world. This poem is
In the poem Weapons Training, Bruce Dawe expresses his particular view about military life through the dialogue of the weapons trainer. The poem is in first person*** essentially the poem is a monologue. Dawe uses the structural technique of starting in the middle of dialogue “And when I say…” This indicates to the audience that the weapons trainer has been talking for a while and what he is about to say is important. Another structural technique used in the poem is enjambment, this is to hide the rhyming scheme of the poem so it is read as more of a natural dialogue, also it is said in one breath giving a sense of urgency.
The technique of repetition is used in the dialogue of the weapons trainer, which shows his view on the war. “Dead, dead, dead,” this quote uses repetition; it is at he end of the poem and shows the audience that this is a very serious matter. The dialogue is from the weapons trainer to the soldiers and he is drilling this message into in an attempt to scare them. The rhetorical question, “what are you going to do about it?” reveals to the reader that the solider has power over the other soldiers; also he is trying to regain their attention and assert his power.
In Pleasant Sunday Afternoon the dialogue of the father reveals his particular view of the world. This poem is