Bruce Dawe Homecoming Summary

Whether it’s war or terrorism, children who want to grow securely is living amongst the affected nation. War is obliterating those talented individuals in their childhood who can radically transform the world itself. The two disputed countries may also have justifications to protect the welfares of their own people. There can be wealth and nuclear weapons to demolish this world as a whole. However, peacefully negotiated approach is coveted to compromise on each other. No country can rationalize weapons of mass obliteration and debacles. Often, it is a foolish decision of the pioneers of the country, making it a pretext for the combat. It’s the upright soldiers and their families who need to survive the demise and serious injuries from the weapons. For the last centuries, the spontaneous overflow of poetry has portrayed human emotions concerning wide range of universal issues. Both the poets Donald Bruce Dawe and Wilfred Owen exemplify this cataclysm of losing your families and the conditions the soldiers face, through their notable poems Homecoming and Dulce et Decorum Est.

In the poem “Homecoming” Dawe laments the pointless waste of life as a result of the Vietnam War while also sympathising in an omnipresent way. In conjunction to this he displays an almost condescending view of

"they’re picking them up, those they can find, and bringing them home, they’re bringing them in, piled on the hulls of Grants, in trucks, in convoys, they’re zipping them up in green plastic bags, . . . they are bringing them home." The use of repetition, and the poem’s rhythmic style, we are given the impression of an endless conveyor belt. This quote also gives us meaning; that war is almost like a business, manufacturing soldiers and sending them home. "curly-heads, kinky-hairs, crew-cuts, balding non-coms" Imagery is used in this quote to show that war is indiscriminate, war does not care for race, religion, background etc. "in their sterile housing they tilt towards these like skiers– taxiing in, on the long runways" Metaphor is used to show the dead soldiers moving about in their coffins before landing on the runway, this quote also gives the reader a realisation of the reality of

Embracing plastic bags and shouting at a loss that cannot be compensated are the melancholies experiences in life. Lots of mothers pray and wait anxiously at the door to take in their heroes. Afterward suddenly, they lose their hope when seeing the green plastic bags along the floor. The poem “Homecoming” symbolized the young soldiers who have died on the battlefield and subsequently brought home in body bags. The soldiers intensify the sadness in this poem as they perish in a terrible way instead of supplementing their lives while getting old day yet day. In this poem, Dawe explores repetition in “all day, day after day” to emphasize the arrival of a nameless body which is hence different from the heartfelt joy extended to a loved one. The

“They’re fighting harder than ever but are they fighting for?” 50,000 Australians including ground troopers, navy and air force personnel served in Vietnam between 1962 and 1972. 520 died and 2,400 were wounded. Homecoming by Bruce Dawe is set in the Vietnam War era. It tells his negative views towards the hopeless loss of life during the period. It talks about the Australians that have died overseas and their body’s being taken home to their grieving families. It emphasises the waste of life and impact of death wars have on families, friends and colleges of the fallen and still fighting.

War is a terrible event. When it ignites, it is like an unquenchable fire consuming the countries involved and the people who fight for them. Everyone is affected in some way. The men will go off to fight for their country. The women are constantly worried about their loved one’s whereabouts and the children constantly miss their fathers. The elderly are also affected they see their sons coming home in body bags, in some instances for a fight that is not their own. And then there are the soldiers and how they have been negatively affected by living through it. Respectively, the two literary works that were written by former soldiers of World War 1 and the Vietnam War include the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen and the short story “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien came as a result of the authors’ personal backgrounds relating to war, the effect of the technology of that time period, and their mentality of perceiving war.

Dawe wrote “Homecoming” as an anti-war poem against Australia following America into Vietnam. At a first glance the ironic title makes the poem seem like it's a celebration of the soldiers returning from war. Dawe was able to use the title “Homecoming” as a way to use the the usual positive meaning everyone would think of, with the reality of war. Dawe also uses repetition in a way to make the processing of soldiers seem like a robotic task. Throughout the first few lines, Dawe uses the suffix -ing, to describe the actions of the body handlers. This creates irony, as these verbs are used to signify life but instead contrasts to the lifeless, cold bodies that they handle each day. Bruce uses lots of visual imagery to emphasise the war. Dawe also uses the final lines of the poem to create a paradox. “They're bringing them home now, too late, too early” because the soldiers have already died. Also too early, as the soldiers where young men, with a long life ahead of

David Enwistle (2010) in Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity challenges the reader to look at the idea that psychology and Christianity are at odds with one another when it comes to the idea of psychology. He states that it may be impossible for both to coexist because of the differences seen within both. Psychology is based strictly on truth, and Christianity is based solely of a person’s faith. According to Enwistle, (p. 32), “a historical survey would suggest that they have been both at various times over the past centuries”. This would suggest that the church and man at different times have accepted both, but a various periods, the church has not accepted psychology as a viable method of dealing with emotional turmoil.

In the story “How to tell a true war story” O’Brien often goes into detail and reassures readers that the story about Rat Kiley is indeed true. The author abstracts commentary on storytelling and actually fogs the difference to what is indeed true and what is fiction. He achieves this by an authorial persona and a series of paradoxical events. The beginning brands the story as to it being true by giving a direct claim stating “this is true.” But towards the ends of the paragraphs O’Brien reverses the claims by redefining the real truth.

The main point of this reading can be summed up by Preston Cloud’s general idea of the planet. “In his eyes, the planet was one big interlinked system: the history of life and the workings of climate, oceans, and continents formed a single unified narrative” (pgs. 92-93). This narrative, as understood in the fourth chapter, has a time in which all living things understand and operate under. When the French geologist Michel Siffre spent two months in an underground cavern, he learned that even when the human brain can’t distinguish day from night, it continues to operate on a 24-hour clock (pgs. 66-67). Ronald Konopka has found similar findings in flies, showing that living things all operate on a 24-hour clock. Life is synchronized (pgs. 71-73). There is also a beginning in this narrative of life. Most people know rust is created when iron reacts with oxygen. The oldest iron-rich layers of rock show no sign of rust, while more recent layers do. This shows the shift of oxygen into the atmosphere, which

Homecoming? What does it mean you mean to you. Well to Mr. Saba “Homecoming means alumni coming home.”

Summary: Young Brue Wayne is the new kid at Ducard Academy, but he is finding it hard to fit in. Bruce makes friends with other outcast: Clark Kent and Diana Prince. Together they create a Junior Detective Agency to find out why they were chosen to join the school and what the faculty has planned.

Repetition is the repeating of a sentence (or in this case stanza) for emphasis. The first stanza states “Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” The repetition of this stanza shows

This poem is my favorite of the three poems we have studied because of the beautiful language and poetic techniques it employs, and because of how realistically it portrays war. The poem captures the horror of troops caught in the middle of a brutal and merciless war, and their desperation. In a mechanized war, attacks take place with frightening speed and intensity, where there is no place to run or hide, and any response is not made out of logic but of pure fear. This hasty and irrational way of thinking fueled only by terror typically only ended in death for both the attacker and the defender, and severe trauma for any survivors. Using a series of present continuous verbs, the poet depicts fast evolving action. He portrays the realness

There are four stanzas that each have six lines and end in a rhyming couplet. This is a huge contrast to the chaos, horrific imagery and emotions that are portrayed throughout the poem. The poem is organised much like the photographer attempts to organise his work. He sets out his film in “ordered rows” which could suggest that he is trying to organise this destruction and pain because he feels as though he needs some control over that chaos that is part of his life. The style of this poem is very clinical which can suggest that this is the mindset that people photographing war have to have. Evidence of this is the adverb “impassively” which shows how he has to emotionally separate himself before he goes into another war zone.