Not so Good Earth Analysis

Bruce Dawe’s poems “Katrina”,” A Victorian Hangman Tells His Love”, “Homo Suburbiensis “ and “Enter Without So Much As Knocking” depict life and death through the use of similar poetic techniques such as metaphors, imagery, onomatopoeia, tone and similes, although, with different circumstances. The events in these four poems evoke emotions within the reader, the most common being sadness and frustration. These emotions are explored, in all four poems, through the tone of melancholy.

The arrival of the new child is a fundamental change to the lives of the entire family, but his departure is tantamount to the execution of the heart. The upheaval of life is immeasurable. Everyone will test the end, but each one will die in a different way. Bruce Dawe constructed his opinion about life and death through his poems “Enter Without Such as Knocking” and “Homecoming” to show that the life is too short, and it forces every single one to live under its harsh conditions until the last breath. In his poems, Dawe describes social issues in the life cycle that affect several people. In “Entering Without Such as Knocking," Dawe describes the death of a selfish man who optimistic about losing himself and his family for money. In "Homecoming," Dawe characterized the death of young soldiers who sacrificed themselves without fearing the death. Ultimately, in both poems, death is the fact that any machine will eventually fail.

Sometimes the Earth is more cool than you can imagine. After the high 80 earthquake on January 12th, 2010, Leonard Pitts, and award-winning journalist, wrote a powerful article to show the Earth's “cruelty” and the tragedy that struck Haiti. The article “ Sometimes the Earth is Cruel” portrays the Haitian people's response to an earthquake by using figurative language, a strong theme, and a powerful message. Throughout the article a strong theme of persistence is displayed and a compelling message is portrayed by showing the Haitians perseverance and the Earth's cruelty. The theme of “Sometimes the Earth is Cruel,” is perseverance through tragedy.

Bruce Dawe uses expressive language features to show the harshness of his poem. Dawe uses a variety of descriptive words to express his opinion,

Throughout the poem Dawe makes numerous references to how the human race is bringing about the destruction of the planet earth. References such as “the fumes from car-exhausts and fires, from dumps and furnaces aspires.” indicating toxic fumes being released from our forever growing industry lifestyle. And “To poison heaven where the bird, sings on a diminished third.” shows how these fumes affect our society and environment. Dawe uses the word diminished in reference to the bird song, this can also be a metaphor for how our environment in diminishing which is an underlying theme of this

Each verse focuses on the different aspects of society, which Dawe exposes them and satirizes.

As in the beginning of the fourth stanza, the first word of the stanza brings the reader back to a different part of the boy's life and a different event. This new event shows the character as no longer a boy, representing innocence, but in the company of "godless money-hungry back-stabbing miserable so-and-sos". We can tell from this that Dawe is trying to show that the boy has now grown up and has been introduced to the "real world" and is now already a middle-aged man. The phrase "goodbye stars" relates back to the fourth stanza. He must also farewell the "soft cry in the corner"; a farewell to any emotions. It is at this point that Dawe includes the adult voice of the boy. The character speaks the need to care for yourself first and foremost, no need to think about the effect it may have on others, shown in the statement "hit wherever you see a head and kick whoever's down". This harsh change from innocent boy to selfish man is how Dawe is creating the character. The adult man is shaped by his dialogue in the poem. The character has grown up and no longer discusses his family, yet no mention of a wife or children is present until the next stanza, and then only to criticize. This fifth stanza is the first one to portray him as an adult, and Dawe has managed to make the character seem harsh and unkind.

The word “homecoming” is universally associated with a celebration of the returned and is linked to feelings of happiness and anticipation. Dawe however, employs this word ironically as the “homecoming” described in the poem correlates to the death and mourning of the soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War and depicts the arrival of their nameless bodies. Through establishing this irony Dawe is about to effectively capture the brutal reality of war and highlight the emotional trauma associated with its dehumanising

Katrina is the name of Dawe's new born child, who which the poem is about. Katrina was born very sick, with a plethora of problems listed throughout the poem. “Suspended between earth and sky” is a metaphor used by Dawe as a way of saying that her parents had no way of knowing whether she was going to die or live. Imagery is a big part of the poem. An example would be, “Thin straws of sunlight on your bowed legs”, the sunlight represent the small chances Katrina has to survive, while the bowed legs reminds the audience of her sickness. “The black velvet of death threatening. Your life shines like a jewel” is used as a way of comparing the beauty of her life to a jewel, with the black velvet being the inner lining of a jewellery box, and “death threatening” replacing a flaw the diamond. “Although we know there is no conditioning process which can counter. The karate-blow when it comes” in this passage the karate-blow represents the emotional force Katrina's parents will be hit with after her death. “We are getting in early, although” although they know Katrina will most likely die, they still choose to be by her as long as they

In the first poem mentioned: Enter Without So Much as Knocking, Dawe shows the living of a child in the Baby Boomers period, and the era after World War 2 (1950's

Jeanna Bryner, the managing editor of Live Science relinquished an article called “Human Suffering: Why We Care (or Don’t)” in order to explicate the different factors that affect our decisions in availing or not. One of the fascinating reasons mentioned was “To make any difference in Darfur… a person would have to make a much longer-term commitment that could be quite taxing, physically and monetarily.”(par. 17). Bryner expounded that in order to avail others, we need to give up an abundance of time in our lives, and not everyone can do that. Availing others can additionally be hazardous, for example, if we wanted to avail people in Darfur who are under a perpetual genocide, we might have to peregrinate there and there’s an immensely colossal chance of losing our lives. A plethora of times it is physically arduous to avail others. To us the benefit of staying home with our families and having a stable life largely affects our decision of availing others. All those societal factors make us act nonchalant to human suffering, but they are not the only reasons to why we act the way we do.

Describe the important chemistry of early earth and how this may have given rise to life forms.

Earth University was made in 1985 in response to the central America economic, political and, social crisis. This was done by the Costa Rican government, the United States Agency for International Development and, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Then in 1989 the construction of the main Earth campus started. The location of the first and main Earth campus is in Limon. 1990 was the first Earth University was open and the first class of students only consisted of 60 people. When José Elías Sanchez was inaugurated he made the organic farm and a rural training center in 1997. In the following year Earth focused on integrating a project to educate the students on the changes of agriculture in the tropics.

The Queensland Theatre Company’s rendition of ‘The Wider Earth’ was a highly captivating piece of theatre, which recounted the scientific visionary, Charles Darwin’s voyage on the HMS beagle. Through the extensive manipulation of dramatic languages, in which ritualistic movement, characterisation, tension of relationship, and symbolism were all employed in order to achieve the company’s artistic director, Sam Strong’s aims to have “the cast beautifully transform the various historical and fictional characters into three dimensional human beings.”

In our textbook Understanding Earth, Chapter Thirteen focuses primarily on earthquakes. An earthquake is a sudden and often very violent shaking of the ground that is caused when there is movement within the earths crust. There are two very important areas of an earthquake which are the focus and the epicenter. The focus of an earthquake is the location of where the earthquake begins, meaning that this location is where the ground breaks and the seismic waves diffuse going in all directions outbound of this spot. The epicenter of an earthquake is located on the earths surface right above the focus point. The epicenter is where the waves caused by the earthquake are the most intense and in some cases this location ends with the most damage.