Bruce Dawe Speech

Good morning/ Good afternoon. Today i will be taking about how war is represented in Home-Coming and what my response is to it. Home-Coming is written by Australian poet Bruce Dawe in 1968 who is also considered by some as one of the most influential poets of all time. Dawe was born on 15 February 1930 in Victoria. in 1959 Dawe joined the Royal Australian Air Force as a Trainee telegraphist and was later became an education assistant and was transferred to Malaysia. I choose this poem because it portrays the theme of loneliness and also because it is about the Vietnam War. I believe the poet has represented war as being useless and dreadful as it does nothing but bring death and also shows the process after death too.

I believe Home-Coming is about Australian soldiers who have gone to the Vietnam War and are now coming home as corpses and the procedure they go through after death. During my research about the poem I found out that a verbal and visual image seen by Bruce Dawe triggered this poem. The …show more content…
For those of you who do not know a paradox is a statement that is self-contradictory because it often contains two statement that are both true, but in general, cannot be true at the same time and the notion of senseless life loss. 'they're bringing them home, now too late, too early' I take this to mean that the soldiers are 'too late' because they are now dead and cannot be saved. However it is also 'too early' as many of the soldiers had not even reached the age of 20 and are now dead leaving behind an unfulfilled life.

I believe Bruce Dawe successfully represents war as being barbaric and meaningless in his poem Homecoming. I take him to be speaking for those who cannot as he presents the attitudes of dead soldiers being flown from Vietnam. I also believe with the aid of imagery, similes and personification Bruce Dawe arouses sympathy carefully manipulating the audience to view war from his