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. …

…favourite Life-Cycle is very ordinariness in deed. Overall, Dawe’s poems are very appealing his concerns to point out injustice and those aspect of society that need to be changed is well delivered. Bibliography Hayllar, Sadler. (1992) Poets and Poetry p 187 - 199 Macmillan Education Australia: South Yarra. Mc farlane, Peter. (1998) Among Ants Between Bees P 78, 136-7, 157 Macmillan Education Australia: South Yarra. http://www.chuckiii.com/Reports/Miscellaneous/Bruce_Dawe_Apology_for_Impatience.shtml (Accessed 26th May 20000