Bruce Dawe Journey Essay

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Journeys (Bruce Dawe) + Dead Poet’s Society (related material) Journeys may provide individuals with new insights and understandings of the world and themselves. The poems ‘Enter without so much as knocking’ and ‘Drifters’, composed by Bruce Dawe, enhance the reader’s understanding of journeys and what they encompass. This has been demonstrated through the use of poetic techniques. ‘Enter without so much as knocking’, composed by Bruce Dawe, effectively delineates the concept of journeys for the reason being that Dawe takes the readers on an emotional journey and allows them to imagine a physical journey from the perspective of an individual who was born into a materialistic, consumer-driven society. The poem traces a man’s journey of life …show more content…

Dawe concentrates his concept of the poem on the inevitability of restlessness in the life of a transient, gipsy-like, rouseabout family. The use of poetic techniques such as imagery and symbolism in “Canes with their last shrivelled fruit’, symbolises that the family has “shrivelled hope”, however, “Bright with berries”, symbolises the mother’s hope for the start of a new season. References of “He” and “She” are left intentionally unexplained to enhance the anonymity of the persona’s perspective and to also detain the reader to resist making judgments. Juxtaposition is used when Dawe describes that the oldest girl is “close to tears” because she was happy at the family’s previous location, in contrast to the youngest girl “beaming because she wasn’t”. This signifies that there are differing perceptions of relocating from each member of the family. ‘Drifters’, allows for readers to witness an emotional journey, as well as allows them to imagine a physical journey, taking place from the perspective of the persona, which as a result allows readers to understand how journeys differing perceptions for

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