Bruce Dawe Analysis

Donald Bruce Dawe’s literature makes society cognisant on the painful realities that are of the raw and dehumanising truth that plague this world. Donald Bruce Dawe, an Australian poet. His literature is predicated unto the dehumanising and defamatory experiences that he, the inditer himself had experienced through his time in the army, the RAAF. Though his literature, he conveys an opinionated point-of-view, urging the audience to optically discern the exploited and flawed practices of the regime. It is the truth obnubilated from society by propaganda and word of mouth, Dawe pushes the theme time and time again that authenticity is a painful experience, and that war is erroneous, wasteful, dehumanising. Understanding Dawe’s conceptions avails

“...the rope of your forty-one years around your neck.”- On the Death of Ronald Ryan. Antithesis, as it contrasts life, with death. Its effect is to utilise the contrast to stir up feelings, and pity toward the subject, namely Ryan. “muzzles raise in a mute salute”-Homecoming. Ellipsis, it utilises canines to express the silent mourning of a minority. The Ellipsis used in Homecoming is a subtle, yet striking effect as it uses a rather background-like asset to set the mood even further, rather than stating the mood, Dawe describes the mood. “home, home, home”-Homecoming. Repetition. It uses this effect to accentuate the “Homecoming” of the dead. Repetition is harnessed to utilise the irony and accentuate the ones who are coming back are dead, not the glorified ending that society was promised. The inditer, Dawe, utilises his perspective to present his view on the matter. His perspective is rather raw, and often the plain truth, as optically discerned in “Homecoming”, and in some stanzas in “On the Death of Ronald Ryan”. Readers may interpret his works in ways of tyranny toward the regime, society in some fashions. He utilises his works to expose the wrongdoings that the ascendant entities commit under our nasal discerners, “they’re bringing them home, now, too tardy, too early.” may represent this conception, or “... the one no lawyer in the land could

Conceptions of exploit and exposibility is constant in his text as he verbally expresses the truth, or what the public can receive. The poem, Homecoming, communicates the horrible aftermaths of war, categorically the Vietnam war and the effects on Australia, and our adolescence. Homecoming prospers in addressing the quandaries that the regime do not addressed in the promotional posters and propaganda spoon victualed to society, which we victual up expeditiously. Dawe, through this poem was to make us cognisant about the quandaries of war. On the Death of Ronald Ryan, alternatively was rather a homage to the last man executed in Australia, rather than being an exposing piece of text, though it does contain aspects that do explicate the powerlessness of society and the authentic power of the regime. His poems are a rather impactful pieces, which do leave the reader with some cognisance of a marginally dystopian regime, one that is a dehumanising, yet scarcely inevitably ineluctable. Dehumanising as the regime may seem, Dawe makes us cognisant on the painful realities that circumvent the history and society itself. Homecoming fixated on the dehumanising treatment the war heroes received, On the Death of Ronald Ryan highlighted the corrupt regime at the time, accentuated the erroneous contentment of an