Poets use poetry to deepen their understanding of the world. Bruce Dawe uses poetry to make sense of situations and express his perspective on global issues like war. In his poems "Katrina" and "Homecoming", he employs figurative language and imagery to convey his feelings about death, loss, and the brutality of war. Through poetry, Dawe is able to accept things he cannot change and gain a deeper understanding of the unexpected nature of life and the impacts of war.
Poets use poetry to deepen their understanding of the world. Bruce Dawe uses poetry to make sense of situations and express his perspective on global issues like war. In his poems "Katrina" and "Homecoming", he employs figurative language and imagery to convey his feelings about death, loss, and the brutality of war. Through poetry, Dawe is able to accept things he cannot change and gain a deeper understanding of the unexpected nature of life and the impacts of war.
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Essay about Bruce Dawe and how poetry influences his life
Poets use poetry to deepen their understanding of the world. Bruce Dawe uses poetry to make sense of situations and express his perspective on global issues like war. In his poems "Katrina" and "Homecoming", he employs figurative language and imagery to convey his feelings about death, loss, and the brutality of war. Through poetry, Dawe is able to accept things he cannot change and gain a deeper understanding of the unexpected nature of life and the impacts of war.
Poets use poetry to deepen their understanding of the world. Bruce Dawe uses poetry to make sense of situations and express his perspective on global issues like war. In his poems "Katrina" and "Homecoming", he employs figurative language and imagery to convey his feelings about death, loss, and the brutality of war. Through poetry, Dawe is able to accept things he cannot change and gain a deeper understanding of the unexpected nature of life and the impacts of war.
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Poets write in order to deepen their understanding of the
world they live in.
Poetry is a creative outlet in which poets are able to record their
thoughts, make sense of a situation and to present a specific viewpoint on global issues. Hence, through the use of poetry and poetic techniques, they are able to deepen their understanding of the world they live in. This is clearly apparent in the poems Katrina and Homecoming by Bruce Dawe. Poetry helps make sense of a situation by using figurative language to grasp a deeper meaning. In the poem Katrina, Dawe does not understand why this is happening to him, suggesting that life is unexpected and he has no choice but to accept it. He states that he had in mind a prayer, but only this came, which emphasises that only through poetry can he express his feelings and come to terms with what is happening. Dawe has already lost faith in God as he writes we are getting in early showing that they have already started the grieving process even though Katrina is still alive. The use of the metaphor black velvet of death and the simile of your life shines like a jewel depicts the contrast between her life and her brothers while showing how precious a life is. He uses emotive language and metaphors including bowed legs, dummy taped in your mouth and the karate-blow to highlight her vulnerability and weakness, her final breath, the intensity of the situation and how helpless the parents are. Thus, as a result of poetry, Bruce Dawe is able to accept and make sense of the situation while understanding that the world is unexpected, people should accept things they cannot change and essentially enjoy life. Bruce Dawe uses vivid visual and aural poetic techniques to raise global issues and construct his own attitudes towards war. Through the poem Homecoming he conveys his feelings about the world and how it should be. There is repetition of the suffix ing in bringing, zipping describing the dehumanising nature of the process of packing the bodies up while establishing irony. These verbs suggest life but the body concealed in the bag is cold and lifeless. Repetition is used to highlight the brutality of war and the loss of the soldiers identity. Dawe feels that wherever war is, it is pointless, destructive and causes emotional damage to family and friends. This is seen through the phrase ridiculous curvatures, suggesting that war is ridiculous and useless as it is a struggle for power and land (curvatures).
To highlight the impacts of war, Dawe uses imagery and a simile,
Telegrams tremble like leaves from a wintering tree and the spider swings in his bitter geometry. Personification of the telegrams trembling indicates the burden they carry to the families. The leaves from a wintering tree is a powerful image as it provides a snapshot into the immense number of lives lost and the brutality of war. The spider in its bitter geometry may imply that the web is the aftermath of war, it reaches all countries and everyone as there is no escape from grief. The paradox theyre bringing them home now, too late, too early implies that the chance for life has past. However, it was also too early, as their life had just begun. Dawes use of poetic techniques in the poem strips war of its wrongly honorary position and concludes that war is not beneficial or useful in any way. Hence, poetry expresses a specific perspective on the world and also suggests how it should be, in turn deepening the not only the poets understanding of the world but also the reader. Therefore, using poetry and poetic techniques, Bruce Dawe is able to convey his viewpoint on global issues and come to terms with a situation while deepening his understanding of the world he lives in.
