Homecoming Bruce Dawe

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Power is the ability or capacity to do something or act in a particular way, it can also direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events. Protest itself is a statement or action expressing disapproval or objection to a serious issue however both power and protest are important in a democratic society, Democracy works best when it is participator and people expressing their true views on a serious issue. This changes acts in society and shows how powerful protest can be influenced. The types of methods that are used in protest are rallying, striking, marching, singing, poetry, petitions and many more. Poetry of social comment expresses a viewpoint in society; its importance is high because it is another form of protest. The issue that will analyze is the dehumanization of soldiers and the futility of war; it is proven that when soldiers go to war they are not remembered as normal people but only a statistic on a page. The poem that will be analyzed is ‘Homecoming’ By Bruce Dawe. Bruce Dawe is an anti-war poet who has written several poems that relates to war and shows his true viewpoint …show more content…

The form of the poem is a free verse, Free verse is an open form of poetry, it does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern, and it therefore tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech. In the beginning of the first stanza, the opening line has a repetition, (repetition is a technique used by poets that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer). Bruce Dawe used words such as ‘they’re’ and ‘them’, instead of using names; this shows how the soldiers are not identified by their names and are being treated as a number instead. This makes the audience to feel that the soldiers are not being treated like a human being, thus linking back to the message of the poem, ‘ The dehumanization of

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