Poetic Devices
Bruce Dawe, a well renowned Australian poet was born in 1930 in Geelong. Who was once portrayed as "an ordinary bloke with a difference". Bruce Dawe writes about ordinary Australian people in the suburbs confronting their everyday problems. He observes and records the sorrow and hardships of average people struggling to survive back in the 1940's. Mr Dawe emphasises his views by composing three of his great simple poems Home Suburbiensis, Drifters and my favourite Life-Cycle. Poem "Homo suburbiensis"-Latin term for humans that live in the suburbs. The poem shows a classical suburban household set on a quarter-acre block with a flower garden and lawn in front and a vegetable garden (lawn) at the back. Dawe maintains that there is one constant value in a unstable world where politics play a major role. The man is a suburban householder standing alone in his backyard on a quiet evening among his vegetables. Dawe's captures humorous terms like it's "not much but it's all we've got." The imagery suggests that Dawe is both celebrating suburbia, while in some ways puts down the suburban householders dreams: The rich smell of "compost" and "rubbish". The space taken vastly by overcrowds dry land with drying plants represent th
Mc farlane, Peter. (1998) Among Ants Between Bees P 78, 136-7, 157 Macmillan Education Australia: South Yarra. Dawe proposes that ordinary lifestyles are not just eat, work, sleep but the strains people have to face everyday. He goes into depths of people's lives and makes their problems obvious to the readers. Dawe faces people's problems that is not bought up everyday and are ignored This is a good example of an ordinary life, as this particular person needs to escape the pressures, which highlight "TIME, PAIN, LOVE, HATE, AGE, EMOTION, and LAUGHTER". All which are present and Dawe makes that aware of an "ordinary life". Being achieved in his back yard. In conclusion Bruce Dawe's skill in using appropriately simply word structure and rhythm, to re-create his earliest memory of ordinary lifestyles people sustained in the late 1940's is brilliantly contracted. He's work is to be admired by people it can be said his a poet of the people, because he writes about the problems of life in a language that everyone can understand. From all three of his varied poem's it can be observed that Bruce Dawe was very concerned about ordinary people since his child hood. His poems are very emotional and sympathetic to Australian society past and present. The great simple poems Home Suburbiensis, Drifters and my favourite Life-Cycle is very ordinariness in deed. Overall, Dawe's poems are very appealing his concerns to point
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