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The Poetry of Bruce Dawe
Includes Homecoming, 'Accident and Ambulance siren', 'Katrina', 'Breakthrough', 'The Not So Good Earth' and 'Enter without so much as Knocking'
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| central concerns | life, media, materialism, contemporary world |
| style/technique | accessibility, familiarity, informal/colloquial, ordinary subject matter |
| use of humour | sarire, pun, irony, parody, sarcasm, black humour |
| The Not so Good Earth _theme | those who can be entretained by other people's suffering |
| Accident and Ambulace Siren_theme | mirrors one of our deepest fears - death |
| Enter Without so much as Knocking_theme | people under media or peer group pressure use cliches supplied by pressure groups intead of thinking out their own values and the emptiness of our lives |
| Katrina_theme | expresses competently and honestly the quality of absolute, unqualified love, which is for all of us our deepest need |
| Homecoming_theme | elrgy about the deep tragedy of any war |
| Breakthrough_theme | the impact and influence of advertising on our everyday lives |
| The Not So Good Earth_ techniques | clear and unmitigated satire, irony, oxymoron |
| Accident and Ambulance Siren_techniques | figurative imagery, metaphor, limited punctuation, rhetorical questions |
| Enter Without So much as Knocking_techniques | dramatic presentation, cliches, humourthrough absurdly exaggerated examples, emphasis through repetiton, emphasis on first words of lines, figurative language, light hearted flippant tone |
| Katrina_techniques | figurative imagery, metaphor, analogy, structured variation of the length of lines |
| Homecoming_techniques | figurative imagery(mostly metaphors), slow reoccurring rhythm, repetition, alliteration, listing, heavy impersonal monotonous tone, paradox |
| Breakthrough _techniques | incongruity, exaggeration, contrast, figurative language |
| Satire | Witty sarcasm |
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