How does the poet vividly convey ideas concerning the influence that nature has upon man?…
The poem ‘About his Person’ is a poem about a man who commits suicide. We are not given exactly how or why straightforwardly but we are given the items he had on him when he did it. It’s through the items we get to understand why he did it. Armitage makes this poem moving through doing that and also using other techniques.…
Reflections Within is a non-traditional stanzaic poem made up of five stanzas containing thirty-four lines that do not form a specific metrical pattern. Rather it is supported by its thematic structure. Each of the five stanzas vary in the amount of lines that each contain. The first stanza is a sestet containing six lines. The same can be observed of the second stanza. The third stanza contains eight lines or an octave. Stanzas four and five are oddly in that their number of lines which are five and nine.…
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 evident through his mocking approach to the issues he presents in two of his longer poems, ‘Enter without so much as Knocking’ and ‘Life-cycle’.…
Bruce Dawe is a contemporary Australian poet from the late 1960’s to the early 1970’s, writing poems protesting against the issues occurring in society that he didn’t morally believe in, these issues are still relevant in today’s society. Dawe comes from a catholic back ground and is passionate towards his religion; his catholic views were a big impact on what he wrote about in his poems, creating him to see things differently to the everyday Australian. He once quoted “the world is a brutal, mysterious, beautiful, inexplicable affair”. In the poems ‘The wholly innocent’ and ‘Homecoming’ Dawe explores and represents the social issues; moral brutality and loss of humanity. Dawe portrays the ugliness of human nature within the world; to challenge us about our moral brutality and loss of humanity within the world. Dawe represents these two social issues; moral brutality and loss of humanity through the use of poetic techniques. He uses the poetic techniques language and voice, expressing it through his Christian beliefs.…
A physical journey is an act of travelling from one destination to another, which may seem like a rudimentary process at first, but are often far more intricate. Physical journeys may consist of challenges but may lead to a vast range of positive experiences to benefit the traveller. The two poems, ‘Migrants’ and ‘Drifters by Bruce Dawe and related text Journey to freedom by Hai-Van Nguyen are all successful texts which cleverly conveys the travellers journey’s resulting in a positive experience.…
Dawe's reputation as a poet is for his celebration of "ordinariness". With his use of everyday, colloquial speech, especially the Australian idiom, with his popular poems about football, local events, trivia, the rough and tumble of politics, Australian suburbia, as well as his poems on love and death, terror and fear, he is labelled the "people's poet", "an ordinary bloke, with a respect for the ordinary".…
Change can be confronting and because of this we often try to resist it. However, we need change and we must accept it, for without change we cannot grow. This confrontation of change, resistance and final acceptance of change can be seen in the texts, " Drifters", " And a good Friday was held by all" by Bruce Dawe and 10 Things I hate about you" by Gil Junger. All three of these texts examine the process of change and the attitudes towards change.…
‘Lore’ and ‘An old man’s winter night’ both use enjambment, but to different effects. They also use parenthesis in their poems. However in ‘Lore’ the rhyme scheme emphasises Jobs rhythm of work. He also has a jump in his step while he is telling us about his life and…
This a comparative analysis of poems 'To His Coy Mistress', 'Let's Misbehave' (actually is a song) and 'The Sunne Rising'. It was supposed to be 4 poems, but I'm pretty sure a paragraph went missing, so this is up for repairs.…
Most people expect that all poetry should be close to the same thing if we were to have the same theme, but in fact, although there are many similarities, there can also be many differences too. Upon comparison of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S Eliot and Afternoons and Coffee Spoons by Crash Test Dummies we see just this. These two poems share similarities in theme, and reference to time but do not have similar tones.…
How does Shelley’s presentation of the creature in Frankenstein enlist our sympathies for him? Explore these sympathies, with reference to Brave new World.…
The universal appeal of Bruce Dawe's poems lie in the poet's passion in speaking for those who have no means of speaking. In "The Wholly Innocent" Dawe challenges his readers through a wilful determination to terminate the pregnancy of a healthy foetus. And in Homecoming Dawe questions the validity of war as he speaks of the untimely death of several adolescent boys who are brought home as dead soldiers. Through the use of persona in a dramatic monologue, vivid imagery, onomatopoeia, deliberate repetition and other poetic techniques Dawe reaches the moral conscience of his readers to the wrongness of terminating life prematurely whatever the reason for it may be.…
‘Drifters’ is a poem about one woman’s refusal to abandon hope, in spite of overwhelming hardship. The family has to move from place to place, as the father needs to move by the demand of his job. Despite Dawe’s use of causal language, if you read carefully you would be able to see the seriousness of what he is saying.…
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 a year, but it was there that he met Philip Martin, whom Dawe acknowledges as the greatest influence in his literacy concerns, and who remained a friend, and an advisor in his developing poetic skills after he left his studies. After leaving University he was employed in Sydney as a factory hand, and in Melbourne as a postman. He then served in the RAAF from 1959-1968. He was a teacher at Downlands College from 1969 to 1971, then at the University of Southern Queensland, retiring in 1993. He is married with four children. All of the above expericances have brought Dawe to write the poetry he has in "Sometimes Gladness." Bruce Dawe, who was once portrayed as "an ordinary man with a difference" writes about ordinary Australian people in the suburbs confronting their everyday problems. He observes and records the sorrow and hardships of average people struggling back in the 1940's, right through until the 1990's. We characterise Bruce Dawe as an Australian Poet as he distinctively writes with Australian imagery, that suggests he is speaking of life and family experiences he has observed and felt over his career as an Australian poet. This is demonstrated in three Of his poems, "A footnote to Kendall", "Head for the hills" and "The Exiles." In "Head for the Hills" Bruce Dawe uses a sense of insecurity to describe those who are living their lives as Australian outbackers. Although this poem also illustrates that fact that the easygoing people of these towns aren't really…