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In twenty-five lines of dramatic and shocking poetry, Bruce Dawe’s “Homecoming” manipulates the audience to view the tragedies of war and the lack of respect that is given to those who fight within it.
“Homecoming”, a word that is associated very much with fond memories of returning to our loved ones and our home, where one is given a celebratory acknowledgment, is used in shocking contrast to the death of the soldiers represented within this poem. Dawe shocks his audience from the first word with this use of contrast between a sense of warmth, accorded to “Homecoming”, and the desolate despair which families feel when faced with the body of one dead returning to them, devoid of life. ...
Throughout “Homecoming” objects are given the human qualities of “whining”, “trembling”, and “howl(ing)” yet the dead can no longer show or produce such as they are lifeless, blank.
Approximate Word count = 602
Approximate Pages = 2.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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