Interview
Interviewer: Good morning/afternoon and welcome to a special screening of sixty minutes, I am your host Amber Berry. Today we will be interviewing the world-renowned poet Bruce Dawe to learn about his secrets and milestones to refined poetry.
(Calls in Bruce Dawe)
Welcome Sir, we are obliged to have you on our show. During this segment I will be asking you a few questions about your immaculate poems. The poems you have written are extremely real and meaningful. I personally enjoy them a lot. Now starting with the first question.
Okay so tell us about yourself and what has inspired you to pursue poetry?
Bruce Dawe: Well hello everybody, as you all know I am Bruce Dawe. I was born in Fitzroy in Victoria on the 15th of February …show more content…
So ‘The Not So Good Earth’ is a poem I have created to present the differences between the East and the West. As some of you who may have not read it, it is about a Chinese famine on TV with conventional viewing to advertisements and an abrupt disconnection to the TV causing no major impact on the western family. I have quite perceptibly shown the western understanding of insensitivity to the eastern cultures by representing the distortion of reality to a theatrical event. I have purposely formed it this way to show the conjuring effect of …show more content…
The techniques I have applied within this whole piece is a fairly relentless style that has less punctuation and leaps directly to an absurd conclusion. I have purposely set the characters ‘Uncle Billy’ and ‘Dad’ very familiar to be set against the poor and unknown ‘Chinese peasant families’. This causes an effect of a kind of insensitivity and reluctance towards the eastern cultures juxtaposed with the western cultures, as consumerism creates this ‘wall’ between the two different cultures making it oblivious to one. Another technique I believe I needed to add was irony, as the title of my poem ‘The Not So Good Earth’ contrasts with title from Pearl Buck’s novel ‘The Good Earth’, when the changing values of the world is described. I have criticised western ignorance western ignorance by applying satire that is “25-inch screen” – which shows the unfolding of a tragedy in a living room. These techniques show consumerism throughout the constant changing society by exemplifying the unconcern from the western cultures towards the eastern and misfortunate cultures due to the belief of consumerism is just
Interviewer: Good morning/afternoon and welcome to a special screening of sixty minutes, I am your host Amber Berry. Today we will be interviewing the world-renowned poet Bruce Dawe to learn about his secrets and milestones to refined poetry.
(Calls in Bruce Dawe)
Welcome Sir, we are obliged to have you on our show. During this segment I will be asking you a few questions about your immaculate poems. The poems you have written are extremely real and meaningful. I personally enjoy them a lot. Now starting with the first question.
Okay so tell us about yourself and what has inspired you to pursue poetry?
Bruce Dawe: Well hello everybody, as you all know I am Bruce Dawe. I was born in Fitzroy in Victoria on the 15th of February …show more content…
So ‘The Not So Good Earth’ is a poem I have created to present the differences between the East and the West. As some of you who may have not read it, it is about a Chinese famine on TV with conventional viewing to advertisements and an abrupt disconnection to the TV causing no major impact on the western family. I have quite perceptibly shown the western understanding of insensitivity to the eastern cultures by representing the distortion of reality to a theatrical event. I have purposely formed it this way to show the conjuring effect of …show more content…
The techniques I have applied within this whole piece is a fairly relentless style that has less punctuation and leaps directly to an absurd conclusion. I have purposely set the characters ‘Uncle Billy’ and ‘Dad’ very familiar to be set against the poor and unknown ‘Chinese peasant families’. This causes an effect of a kind of insensitivity and reluctance towards the eastern cultures juxtaposed with the western cultures, as consumerism creates this ‘wall’ between the two different cultures making it oblivious to one. Another technique I believe I needed to add was irony, as the title of my poem ‘The Not So Good Earth’ contrasts with title from Pearl Buck’s novel ‘The Good Earth’, when the changing values of the world is described. I have criticised western ignorance western ignorance by applying satire that is “25-inch screen” – which shows the unfolding of a tragedy in a living room. These techniques show consumerism throughout the constant changing society by exemplifying the unconcern from the western cultures towards the eastern and misfortunate cultures due to the belief of consumerism is just