Summary Of Sometimes Gladness By Bruce Dawe
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 or poems.
Poem 1- Outline & LFs in ‘Up the Wall’
Bruce Dawe’s poems, from Sometimes Gladness, are a commentary of Australian life, from 1954 to 1978. • Dawe’s ‘Up the wall’, from Sometimes Gladness is structured into the traditional form of a …show more content…
• His sexist monologue insults and belittles the men, with the purpose of making them suffer, and toughening them up. • Within this monologue, Dawe uses a rhetorical question and hyperbole, to…answer question, showing the dehumanising process of creating a soldier.
LF – Rhetorical Question • The opening of the poem directly relates to the audience, and makes the audience feel like they have stepped into the dialogue. • Amongst the sergeant’s barrage of words, he poses the rhetorical question, “Are you queer?” This would usually require an answer, as it is a question, which would initiate dialogue, although as it is rhetorical, in the monologue, it doesn’t require a response, and defies interaction.
LF –Hyperbole • As this text is very over the top, with the dialogue used to get the soldiers in the mood for war, it is appropriate that a hyperbole is used, by the over the top sergeant. • This is used for example when he yells, “Eye balls click”. • This also has the implication of human guns, as he wants their eye balls to click, and he is dehumanizing the
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 or poems.
Poem 1- Outline & LFs in ‘Up the Wall’
Bruce Dawe’s poems, from Sometimes Gladness, are a commentary of Australian life, from 1954 to 1978. • Dawe’s ‘Up the wall’, from Sometimes Gladness is structured into the traditional form of a …show more content…
• His sexist monologue insults and belittles the men, with the purpose of making them suffer, and toughening them up. • Within this monologue, Dawe uses a rhetorical question and hyperbole, to…answer question, showing the dehumanising process of creating a soldier.
LF – Rhetorical Question • The opening of the poem directly relates to the audience, and makes the audience feel like they have stepped into the dialogue. • Amongst the sergeant’s barrage of words, he poses the rhetorical question, “Are you queer?” This would usually require an answer, as it is a question, which would initiate dialogue, although as it is rhetorical, in the monologue, it doesn’t require a response, and defies interaction.
LF –Hyperbole • As this text is very over the top, with the dialogue used to get the soldiers in the mood for war, it is appropriate that a hyperbole is used, by the over the top sergeant. • This is used for example when he yells, “Eye balls click”. • This also has the implication of human guns, as he wants their eye balls to click, and he is dehumanizing the