Bruce Dawe and 'Description of An Idea' by https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35 Made with whimsy en-us 2017-07-26 03:33:19 UTC 2023-01-26 04:34:37 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579240 He is a contemporary Australian poet, his poems are written in the context of post-war Australia. His poems comment on Australian society and forces readers to question their place in society. 

]]> 2018-07-19 02:53:01 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579240 Known as the Poet of Suburbia https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579244 2018-07-19 02:53:03 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579244 https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579258 His work appears to be influenced by his difficult early life, with a bleak perspective on modern day society's weaknesses]]> 2018-07-19 02:53:14 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579258 As a child, as a result to the depression, Dawe and his family moved a lot. This idea is explored in his poem "Drifters" https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579283 2018-07-19 02:53:30 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579283 Early Life https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579301  He grew up in a household where his father was a farm labourer who was often unemployed and absent from home. 

]]> 2018-07-19 02:53:49 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579301 Poetic Style https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579322 Dawe often goes against common practices and doesn’t hold the poem together using repeated sounds at the ends of lines, Dawe uses repetition at the beginnings of lines. ]]> 2018-07-19 02:54:19 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579322 Early Life https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579325  
His family encouraged Dawe to write poems and his sister often wrote poems with him, his mother would often recite poems she had learned in her 19th century childhood. 

]]> 2018-07-19 02:54:21 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579325 He joined the RAAF (Royal Australia Air Force) because he "wanted companionship more than anything." https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579343 2018-07-19 02:54:41 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579343 Education https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579345 He never had the chance to complete primary school similar to his siblings and was the only one out of the children to attend secondary school but he left and the age of 16.

]]> 2018-07-19 02:54:46 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579345 https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579352 As a result of his 9 years of service to the Royal Australian Air force, Bruce's poetry explores further conflicts and acts of senseless violence]]> 2018-07-19 02:54:55 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579352 He searched for a more companionate life, as he spent many years lonely, which he found being a postman. He enjoyed this job. https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579357 2018-07-19 02:54:58 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579357 Historical Context https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579380  Dawe is known as an ‘anti-war poet’ he talks of his relationships within the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) during the Vietnam War, a time when he encountered very strong public opposition to his material. ]]> 2018-07-19 02:55:12 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579380 When he was at the RAAF he worked as a trainee telegraphist and then became an education assistant. He was posted to Malaysia but returned to Melbourne after six months. https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579396 2018-07-19 02:55:26 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579396 He found working in the air force demanding and didn't write much while in Malaysia for 6 months as he couldn't concentrate in the climate. https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579411 2018-07-19 02:55:33 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579411 "Homecoming" and "Weapons Training" https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579434 These two poems explore the context of Dawe and Australia during the Vietnam War. These explore the futility of war and the loss of humanity ]]> 2018-07-19 02:55:54 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579434 Work https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579450 . He had multiple occupations such as being a labourer, farmhand and postman before joining the RAAF in 1959 and left in 1968 to become a lecturer at Downlands College where he taught History and English before becoming an English Literature lecturer.

]]> 2018-07-19 02:55:59 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579450 Views https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579452 His ability to express the drama of everyday life has made his work readily accessible to general public.]]> 2018-07-19 02:56:00 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579452 Has four degrees, all completed by part-time study: B.A. (Qld.), M.Litt. (U.N.E.), M.A. (Qld.), and Ph.D. (Qld.). He now teaches various literature courses in the U3A A (University of the Third Age, an organisation for senior citizens). https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579472 2018-07-19 02:56:11 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579472 Education https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579496 Dawe has four degrees, all completed by part-time study: B.A. (Qld.), M.Litt. (U.N.E.), M.A. (Qld.), and Ph.D. (Qld.). ]]> 2018-07-19 02:56:26 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579496 Dawe drifted through his early years showing promise as a writer but finding little direction for his life. The variety of his many occupations - labourer, postman, university failure, air force officer, father and teacher - has served to give Dawe extraordinary empathy with people from all backgrounds, which characterises his poetry and gives a voice to so-called ordinary Australians. https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579575 2018-07-19 02:57:06 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579575 Donald Bruce Dawe was born in Fitzroy, Melbourne in 1930 https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579578 2018-07-19 02:57:07 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579578 He had two sisters and one brother. None of his siblings went to school. He himself never attended a primary school but went to six different high schools and left when he was 16. https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579597 2018-07-19 02:57:21 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579597 https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579611 One of the biggest selling and most highly regarded of Australian poets, Bruce Dawe, 'The Poet of Suburbia', lives an unconventionally conventional life. 

]]> 2018-07-19 02:57:28 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579611 His sister and mother worried about him while they lived. together https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579619 2018-07-19 02:57:33 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579619 Themes https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579646 -Permanence
-Cycle of life
-Loyalty
-Fear]]> 2018-07-19 02:57:45 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579646 Subject matter https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579655  
-          Most of dawe’s poetry is influenced by his early difficult life and focusses on bleak aspects of modern day society and it’s downfalls 
-           Dawe seemed to be expressing dissatisfaction with the change he saw in society's buying and purchasing habits
-          Often harshly criticised aspects of modern western society such as consumerism and materialistic values

]]> 2018-07-19 02:57:51 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579655 Early Life https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579679 His mother would often recite poetry to him and he would write poems with his sister.]]> 2018-07-19 02:58:09 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579679 Awards https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579691 Dawe won the Christopher Brennan Award in 1984 which commends a lifetime achievement in poetry. He was also awarded the Order of Australia (AO) for his contribution to Australian Literature.]]> 2018-07-19 02:58:15 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579691 He married in 1964, and had four children, however his wife dies in 1997 due to cancer. https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579702 2018-07-19 02:58:23 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579702 '...in him we have an individual and passionately perceptive writer whose work has already assumed its proper territory and whose terms are directed from the heart as well as the mind.'- Judith Wright, Poetry No. 4 https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579725 2018-07-19 02:58:40 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579725 His wife's death from cancer may have influenced his later poetry. https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579756 2018-07-19 02:59:10 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579756 2001 – awarded the Centenary Medal for "distinguished service to the arts through poetry" https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579773 2018-07-19 02:59:19 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579773 He was opposed to the Vietnam War, as he believed that it lacked sense historically and was ultimately futile. https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579786 2018-07-19 02:59:28 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579786 https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579788 Dawe enjoys using some very descriptive passages, employing onomatopoeia sprinkled throughout the poem. His use of this literary device create are interesting and show his skills at penning creative word play. ]]> 2018-07-19 02:59:29 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579788 Education https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579850 After dropping out of high school  
Dawe completed his Adult Matriculation (mature aged entry to university)  by part-time study in 1953 and enrolled at Melbourne University on a teaching scholarship in 1954. 
He then left university at the end of 1954 and moved to Sydney where he worked as a laborer 

]]> 2018-07-19 03:00:08 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579850 He employs a wide range of subject matter in his poetry and often writes about common and unglamorous activities. https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579858 2018-07-19 03:00:13 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579858 He has published 13 books of poetry, a book of short stories, a book of essays, and edited two books. His latest book of poetry, published in 2016, at the age of 86, is called ‘Border Security’. https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579864 2018-07-19 03:00:16 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579864 Awards 1965 – winner of the Myer Poetry Prize 1967 – winner of the Ampol Arts Award for Creative Literature 1968 – winner of the Myer Poetry Prize 1973 – winner of the Dame Mary Gilmore Medal 1978 – winner of the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry 1979 – winner of the Braille Book of the Year 1980 – winner of the Patrick White Literary Award 1984 – winner of the Christopher Brennan Award 1990 – Paul Harris Fellowship of Rotary International 1992 – made an Officer of the Order of Australia: "In recognition of service to Australian literature, particularly in the field of poetry" 1996 – Alumni Award by the University of New England 1997 – winner of the inaugural Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal at the Mildura Writer's Festival 2000 – Australian Council for the Arts Emeritus Writers Award for his long and outstanding contribution to Australian literature 2001 – awarded the Centenary Medal for "distinguished service to the arts through poetry" https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579925 2018-07-19 03:00:58 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579925 Early Life https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579941 Due to the depression, his family moved a lot which is explored throughout ‘Drifters’

]]> 2018-07-19 03:01:11 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579941 Donald Bruce Dawe's Works:No Fixed Address (Cheshire, 1962) A Need of Similar Name (Cheshire, 1965) An Eye for a Tooth (Cheshire, 1968) Beyond the subdivisions : poems (Cheshire, 1969) Heat-Wave. Melbourne (Sweeney Reed, 1970) Condolences of the season : selected poems (Cheshire, 1971) Just a Dugong at Twilight: Mainly Light Verse (Cheshire, 1975) Sometimes Gladness: Collected Poems 1954-1978. (Longman Cheshire, 1978) Selected Poems. (London, Longman, 1984) Towards sunrise: poems 1979-1986 (Longman Cheshire, 1986) This side of silence : poems 1987-1990 (Longman Cheshire, 1990) Mortal instruments : poems 1990-1995 (Longman, 1995) A Poet's People. (South Melbourne, Addison Wesley Longman, 1998) The Headlong Traffic : Poems and Prose Monologues 1997 to 2002 (Longman, 2003) Sometimes Gladness: collected poems, 1954-2005, 6th Edition (Longman Cheshire, 2006) https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579949 2018-07-19 03:01:14 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579949 Recent Works https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579962 Dawe has recently wrote lyrics for the children's theatre play, Aesop's Fables, performed in Toowoomba. He also wrote the lyrics for the musical play, Muscle Dance, based on a polio crusader, Sister Elizabeth Kenny.]]> 2018-07-19 03:01:23 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579962 He was born in Fitzroy, Melbourne in 1930. https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579969 2018-07-19 03:01:25 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579969 In 1959 he joined The Royal Australian Air Force https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579982 2018-07-19 03:01:33 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579982 i https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579995  During an interview, Bruce discusses his relationship with the royal Australian air force during the Vietnam war, which he opposed believing it to be lacking sense historically and that it was ultimately futile - time in which he experience strong public opposition to his material 

o  His poetry continued to explore further conflicts and acts of senseless violence, including the massacre of protestors in tinanmamen square, the bombing of the sari club in bali and Iraq wars 

]]> 2018-07-19 03:01:37 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270579995 He lectured for more than 20 years! https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270580009 2018-07-19 03:01:46 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270580009 Name https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270580064 His full name is Donald Bruce Dawe. ]]> 2018-07-19 03:02:29 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270580064 Bruce served in the air force during the Vietnam War. He thinks communism is a 'disaster'. He is very against totalitarianism https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270580073 2018-07-19 03:02:35 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270580073 He finds some of his subject matter for his poetry in newspapers. https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270580089 2018-07-19 03:02:49 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270580089 https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270580112

]]> 2018-07-19 03:03:02 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270580112 Bruceeeee https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270580170 2018-07-19 03:03:35 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270580170 Bruce led a march in Toowoomba, the Right to March, and ended up going to jail. The march was composed of mostly students from college https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270580320 2018-07-19 03:05:03 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/270580320 Evan miguelle_concepcion https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/351604927 What is my point]]> 2019-04-15 10:37:23 UTC https://padlet.com/miguelle_concepcion/lt85o1t68b35/wish/351604927