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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positives however it is ultimately the positives that triumphs. Both Bruce Dawe’s poems ’Husband and Wife’ and ’Drifters’ and Hannie Rayson’s Australian play Life After George explore and confirm this notion. Although Dawe’s poems were written in the context of the 50’s and 60’s and Rayson’s play was written in 2000‚ both works share similarities in their positive outlook on life but however have differences in their values of society. Bruce Dawe’s poem ’Drifters’ provides a positive outlook on life despite
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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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“How could I be so foolish? Harry’s nose! Shaking with recognition pulls you down…”– Foiled. The attempt to stay an individual has been broken. Some old “creature” has found a clue‚ a hint‚ from your past. You have been recognised and placed back into your box‚ pulled back into your category where you belong. “Lapped in a bunny rug‚ you stare them down” – The contradicting images of the baby wrapped in a cuddly and friendly bunny shaped rug and the harshness of something staring at so intently that
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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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Innovation Lifecycles Leveraging market‚ technology‚ and organizational S-curves to drive breakthrough growth by Soren Kaplan‚ Managing Principal‚ InnovationPoint LLC A ll too often‚ companies’ growth agendas rest upon tried and true strategies‚ tactics and other best practices that are “proven” to drive results. And why shouldn’t they be? They’ve worked in the past and are often associated with the success of the core business. The problem is that these strategies and tactics can often be
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So Much Media‚ So little News The Elusive Big Idea So little comments So little attention So much information‚ so little Idea The disease of new media has greatly shrink human minds that rub off on more and more people in this technology-accelerating world at present. Daily life nowadays has significant changed compare to ten years ago that office workers used to waiting for subway by reading a daily newspaper‚ housewives seating at balcony and reading a newspaper in the morning. But now
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In the story "So Much Water So Close To Home" a young girl is raped‚ killed and found in a river where four men are fishing. What makes this story interesting is that after discovering the body they did not report it until after they left‚ three days later. When one of the men who discovered her‚ the husband of the narrator‚ Stuart returns home he doesn’t tell his wife about the incident until the following morning. Because of this‚ Claire believes that all men are responsible for the murder of
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