Weapons Training Bruce Dawe Essays

Bruce Dawe is an Australian born poet that lived during the time of the Vietnam War.The way Bruce Dawe has refused the typical way of writing further casts a reflection of society’s behaviour at the time.Bruce Dawes poem ‘Weapons Training’ is a piece written about experiences of the Vietnam War in an interesting and unconventional way.References to “mob of little yellows”, “a pack of Charlies” and “their rotten fish-sauce breath” suggest of in-built war propaganda.Rather writing a traditional poem with organised sentences devised with proper punctuation and grammatically correct phrases, he uses a predominant amount of slang to carry the tone of the unmannerly instructor.

Bruce Dawes demonstrates this in his poems “the beach” and “weapons training” along with the song “I am Australian” by Bruce Woodley and the movie “Red Dog.Bruce Dawes other poem weapons training, establishes a view of a sergeant addressing a bunch of newly recruited troops in a blunt and confronting manner.Although our economy has proven resilient in the face of many world financial crises over the years, we are among one of the wealthiest countries.Most of our major cities have been declared the most liveable in the world on multiple occasions, this is because we are a long way from the world’s troubled spots and yet we have a world culture that is vibrant and the most multicultural on earth.We work hard, play hard, laugh hard.

Bruce Dawe is a social satirist who deals with conte mporary problems.The three poems ‘Enter without so much as knocking’, ‘Weapons training’ and ‘Big Jim’ by Brice Daw support the idea in which dialogue can be used to show values and beliefs.‘Weapons Training’ is a poem written in the form of an address being given to a group of raw recruits by an experienced, roughly spoken, gruff mannered sergeant.Daw makes use of techniques such as exaggeration, sarcasm and caricature to ridicule the materialism that infects modern society; “NO BREATHING EXCEPT BY ORDER”, this deliberate exaggeration and the use of capitol letters convey the congestion and stress that is present in our society.Dawe also uses an irregular structure to emphasise the ch...

The drill sergeant speaks in a fairly broad Australian idiom, using the language and clichéd humour of the average Australian.In contrast, “Weapons Training” by Bruce Dawe is able to create a very strong, distinctive voice that brings to life the character of a strong-minded, stern drill sergeant, as he delivers a monologue to all the young new recruits.Through a strong use of techniques including Australian idiom, colloquialism and tone, both Marele Day and Bruce Dawe are effectively able to bring people and their experiences to life through distinctive voice.In contrast, related text: Weapons Training by Bruce Dawe is able to bring a drill sergeant to life as well as his past experience through a distinctive voice.His language is collo...

Bruce Dawe also uses repetition ‘Make a wish, Tom, make a wish.’ as the ending of the poem with a strong sense of hope and the use of ‘and’ several times throughout the poem, conveying an ongoing, enjambment or confession.Bruce Dawe has published 12 books of poetry.The poem ‘Drifters’ by Bruce Dawe should be selected for the prestigious honour of ‘Best Contemporary Australian Poem’ as it is a realism poem, describes Australian lifestyle felicitously, which lead the Australian contemporary audiences easily fall in the poem and deeply engraved in their mind.Donald Bruce Dawe was born in 1930 in Geelong, Victoria, Melbourne, he is one of the most successful and prolific contemporary poets of Australia.‘Make a wish, Tom, make a wish.’ Bruce ...

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.Dawe stresses the importance of “head for the hills” “and head for the hills they did, men, women, and kids wheeling sore footed dogs in old prams”¦.” Showing that no matter what our lives are about we have to make time and space for changes.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.Bruce Dawe, a well renowned Australian po...

Blade Trailer of Memoirs of a Geisha Hollywood vs World Cinema .A tacked-on feeling role, Holmes does not have the charisma or range to make it interesting.The only real wrong note is Katie Holmes as love interest/conscience Rachel Dawes.Even so, we’ve still got some time to wait as Bruce stocks up his Batcave with gadgets provided by Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman), a brilliant scientist working at Wayne Enterprises who also gives Bruce the Batmobile.Maggie Gyllenhaal is signed up in her place for the sequel; let’s hope she makes a better job of it.

With the clever use of language and structural devices, Bruce Dawe was really able to augment his views and exhibit his true perspective upon war.Dawe entices the audience to positive emotions such as hope and relief through the title of “Home-coming” which obviously is supposed to spark happiness.By doing this, Dawe attempts to show a somewhat mechanical and constant process of the storage of corpses, thus displaying the soldiers with the qualities of inanimate objects and not worthy of have equality to human beings.Last week, our group was designated to analyse the poem Home-Coming by Australian poet Bruce Dawe, who was born in 1930 in Geelong, Victoria.The intended reaction that Bruce Dawe wants from the audience is shock, because as ...

From this quote: “having seen in the six-foot recruit from Eaglehawk their hope of salvation” Bruce Dawe purposefully makes the last word of the poem salvation, this word, generally associated with heaven, and the fact that living a good, Christian life will supposedly lead to our salvation and we will go to heaven, not hell.Bruce Dawe has changed the perception of the average Australian worldwide.One of Bruce Dawes most famous poems, written in the 1950s, is Enter Without So Much As Knocking.Bruce Dawe often uses humour to devastating effect.By using triumphant words such as ‘behold’ ‘passion’ and ’empyrean’ Dawe is showing great sarcasm, as he did with the Christian symbolism.

In Bruce Dawe’s “Homecoming”, he explores personal and public issue of lack of identity and the indiscriminate slaughter of young men in the Vietnam War.Dawe refers to green bodies in “green plastic bags”, shows the lack of identity and invokes emotions from the reader.All of these techniques give us a compelling insight into the personal experiences and public issues of the Vietnam war.Bruce Dawe explores different personal and public issues within his poems.Bruce Dawe oft questions the need and validity of war; he talks about the dehumanization and utter brutality the young Australian men face.

Similarly, written by Bruce Dawe the poem “Weapons Training” employs a variety of techniques to create the distinctively visual image of the issues of the harsh realities of war through the brutal nature and the idea that death can come at any moment.Both texts has effectively shown responders what individuals have experienced through the use of language and have painted a distinctive visual to convey ideas of the brutality and horrendous nature of war as responders understand the purpose of the text.He has the responsibility of training them for war and the distinctively visual image of urgency, fear and confusion that is tied in with battle is explored through, “you know what you are you’re dead, dead, dead.” The short snappy sounds mi...

To conclude Bruce Dawes poem shows both satirical and celebration natures.He talks throughout the poem about the different stages of life and their relating stage to their support of the AFL and their club.One of the key parts of the poem is the dedication at the start to Dawes friends father Big Jim Phelan a former AFL player and board member and an overall fan of the game, this dedication shows that it is also a celebration of the game due to Phelans love for it .Throughout the poem Dawe uses several religious references such as, “like the voice of god” which is showing the reader that in Victoria the game of Australian Rules Football is similar to god and taken as it’s a religion, this quote is explaining the voice of the typical su...

In each of the two texts Dawe uses a variation of references and ambivalent phrases to help the diverse groups of readers to clearly comprehend his points about anti-war which are immersed within his poems.Having multiple meanings is used within the poems written by Bruce Dawe to create a sense of ambiguity and allow the reader to create their own understanding.Through the use of ambiguity the readers are captivated as they feel as though they are entitled to have an opinion and are able to interpret the poem to their own understandings.Bruce Dawe is a famous poet born in 1930.Dawe uses the repetition of words like ‘You can’ and ‘someone else will’ to intrigue the reader into feeling as though if they were to ‘nail it to a cross’ it woul...

Dawe writes of the wife as if she wished Ronald died ‘with far more dignity than the shabby ritual which gave you credit for’.Dawe writes this poem in a controversial way as it describes how the hangman enjoys ‘ hitting the door lever, you will go forth into a new life’ this hangman thinks that he is doing these men a favor by taking their lives.Dawe explains that the hangman is ashamed to wear his hangman clothes in front of his wife.In the final phase of ‘Homecoming’ Dawe focuses on the soldiers finally coming .Dawe writes this poem in Ronald Ryan’s wife’s or lover perspective.

Bruce Dawe’s “Homecoming” is a deeply moving poem, which follows the long journey home for the corpses of dead soldiers.Dawe’s anger towards the futility of war is clearly seen in the ironic last line of the poem, “they’re bringing them home, now, too late, too early.” The dead soldiers have finally arrived home but it’s too late because they’re already dead and too early because they didn’t finish their tour of duty and their lives are totally unfullfulled.Soldiers should not be conscripted as pawns to fight a war for disputes between governments, as life is very precious; everyone deserves to live and fullfill their lives.Bruce Dawe effectively uses imagery to create a vividness in the reader’s mind.In conclusion, “Homecoming” presents...

.Overall, Bruce Dawes “The Wholly Innocent”, which is an extremely powerful poem, successfully establishes the fact that the mother of this foetus has no right to take away his/her life.Further underpinning the poem’s universal appeal is word choice where Dawe foregrounds the theme of having the right to life.The universal appeal of Bruce Dawes poems lie in the poet’s passion in speaking for those who have no means of speaking.In this way, Dawe has created a poem that is not only uniquely Australian but presents issues of global concern which generates universal appeal.Bruce Dawe once said that, “we write out of a need to come to terms with some concern, or something “bugging” us.” From this statement, it is blatant that he expresses his...

Bruce Dawe, an Australian known poet, born 1930 is still one of the biggest selling and most highly regarded poets of Australia.This is shown throughout each of the three poems using various language techniques and personal insight, making his audience see that Dawe truly was and still is a unique Australian writer.During this stanza, Dawe has the old man retell what his senses pick up, letting the audience be introduced to both hearing and sight.’ Again Dawe and his view point, even when personal, is both interesting and true to the time period when written as it gives his audience an understanding of both the emotion and sacrifice caught in the constant knowing of impermanence.Bruce Dawe’s poems are interesting because they comment on ...

The poem is written in 7 stanzas with 4 lines each.By implementing “Etcetera” in the climax of the poem, Dawe establishes his opinion that love holds no value and that it is relevant in a relationship as a result of the influence of television.A persistent rhyme is encountered in lines 2 and 4 of each stanza which allows this poem to develop as a flow of thought.Through use of satire and television jargon, responders are able to understand the psychological and emotional dominance of television as the personas mocked for not having genuine emotional experiences by comparing stages of their relationship to television programs.The rhyming scheme also brings about the comparison of T.V.

Dawe suggests that contemporary society is false and superficial.The derogatory labeling is a clichéd reference to the gossiping and derisive comments that characterize the materialistic culture Dawe is criticizing in his poem.The central message of the satirical poem Enter Without So Much As Knocking by Bruce Dawe is that “you are dust and unto dust you shall return”.Through the characters’ complete insensitivity and absence of either empathy or sympathy, Dawe expresses amazement at the complacency of people in our society.By adopting the voice of a consumer Dawe parodies consumer culture and exposes the insensitivity that accompanies shallow materialistic values.

The setting Dawe describes in “Homecoming” is characteristically Australian but the issues related to the horrors and futility of war are universal in their implication regardless of the cultural context.With the aid of imagery, Dawe establishes the pointlessness of war, in that of all the men who have ever died in battles shall never see their homelands again.In this way, Dawe has created a poem that is uniquely Australian, presenting issues of global concern and generating universal appeal.Dawe further suggests that a “wide web” joins all countries, with none able to escape the “spider grief” associated with war.Dawe uses vivid visual imagery to emphasise the emotional damage caused to friends a family through the loss of a loved one, ...

Hence, repetition is used effectively by Dawe to allow the reader to establish that none of these young men have been given the chance to satisfy the universal right to live a full life.The thorough imagery used by Dawe to describe what could occur if the pregnancy is terminated enables the reader to feel disapprovingly towards all people and institutions that are pro-abortion.In doing this, Dawe has become famous as he “speaks for those who have no means of speaking.” .These soldiers will never have an opportunity to voice their protests or their sense of loss; hence Dawe offers a shocking expose of the futility of war and is able to voice his concerns of those who cannot articulate their views.Dawe uses both sound and visual techniques...

The advertisers motivate society through manipulating and persuasion to force their consumers to purchase their products which are not relevant to their daily needs.Bruce Dawe wants his reader to contemplate about our relationships and how they are being affected by the concept of consumerism.Through exploration of the psychology of advertising the five stages of life, advertising theories and techniques and the work of composers like Bruce Dawe and Macklemore provide an understanding of advertising by writing about how consumerism is being influenced in our daily lives.Bruce Dawe’s poetry focuses on the concept of consumerism surrounding the modern era.Dawe pinpoints this parody by saying that instead of the couple sharing a kiss, they ...

In this speech, I will be focusing on how Willy Russel’s play Educating Rita and Bruce Dawe’s poem “Easy does it,” emphasise the notion that pathways into new worlds offer problems and possibilities.Dawe uses a variety of techniques in his poem, and most of these are employed to highlight the theme of taking care as we move into wider worlds.In different ways, all of these text show people mature and develop as a result of going into the world .Similarly, in Bruce Dawe’s “easy does it” explores similar themes to Educating Rita.The poem is a free verse composition, following no regular rhyming or rhythmic patterns (Dawe himself has not been trapped by the ‘stone gaze of grammar’).

The well-known Australian poet, Bruce Dawe, was one of the most inspirational and sincere poets of our time.Dawe also uses vivid visual imagery to emphasise the emotional damage caused to friends a family through the loss of a loved one, a deep discomfort that was often left unrecorded in the history records.Dawe purposefully made the last word of the poem salvation.By using the technique of paradox, Dawe makes a final attempt at clarifying international misunderstanding of war as favourable.In conclusion, it was quite evident that the talented Bruce Dawe basis his poetry on memories of world events and the issues that mankind confront during their everyday routines.

Additionally, in the poem ‘Homecoming’ the social issue represented is moral brutality of human nature, Dawe represents this through the use of the language technique irony.Dawe wrote this poem to educate the Australian public about the Vietnam War, he uses the language technique; double metaphor “The spider grief swings in his bitter geometry” the effectiveness of this is the spiders web is acting as the public transport, and the spider is spreading the word about the death of the soldiers.The paradox and metaphor have been used successfully to show the social issue of loose of humanity; Dawe has successfully challenged us about our ways and the ugliness of them.Dawe uses the voice technique paradox to convey this social issue in the po...

Bruce dawes poems Americanised and The Not-So-Good-Earth express that we are to advanced in technology that there will always be an urge within us to consume, thus the gods must be crazy .They had realised that keeping it was harmful and it would only bring unhappiness to the tribe.Humans get desensitised from the things that they watch on television, The Not-So-Good-Earth is a clear example of that.‘Today,’ she tells him, putting on her hat (shes off to nurse and invalid called the world) ‘Today ill let you play with mummys things.’ This line of Americanised .Bruce Dawes poems show that that is the way of consumerism and it will never change, whereas The Gods Must Be Crazy emphasises that we don’t need consumption in our lives to surviv...

This is shown through the use of visual imagery and onomatopoeia “and when the loaded ute bumps down the drive past the blackberry canes with their last shrivelled fruit” conveying the idea of the hardships which can be caused by the inability to connect to people and place.Similarly in the poem “Drifters”, Bruce Dawe conveys the idea of constant change preventing people connecting and belong to a community or place.The epetition of “and” at the beginning of multiple lines in the first stanza and “she” in the second stanza further emphasizes the idea of a perpetual cycle of negativity and sense of disconnectedness to her surrounding because of the frequent moving of home.Furthermore Dawe harnesses stanza structure and dialogue to illustr...

of water as pure as grief.Consider how these images make you feel.Comment on the use of contrast in this poem.Be sure to explain the impact of these images on you.What is a time capsule?

Its existence is the consequence of an explosion, a jet of acid or a failed experiment.Double-Face is also called Pile-ou-Face, Deux-Faces or even Deux-Faces, according to French translations.Batman neutralizes him and Double-Face is brought back to Arkham, greeted by Bruce, his best friend.Following dinner with Bruce Wayne, Dent's speech about Batman's heroism finally convinces him of the prosecutor's sincerity and kindness.He is Rachel Dawes' boyfriend and, following a reception organized by Bruce Wayne, proposes to him to get engaged, a proposal to which Rachel will not know what to answer.

Today I will be speaking to you about the aspects of identity that are presented in my set text ‘Life-cycle’ by Bruce Dawe and a text of my own choosing Wheelchair basketball: One woman’s story.We see this in the simile ‘They will not grow old as those from more northern states grow old’.Another example from life-cycle is the line ‘for them it will always be three-quarter time with the scores level and the wind advantage in the final term.This is similar to the heading ‘rediscovering a first love’ from the Peers story, which is a clichéd way of portraying the love for the sport.Thanks for listening to my speech.