Helloworld

Prompt for expository essay. Jessica Lowrie

1) Belonging is a basic need and we all need to belong in some way.

Belonging is a basic need and we all need to belong in some way. Everybody feels the need to connect and socialise with others and experience many different characteristics of one another. Who am I? Where do I belong? What is my purpose? Is the question always said over and over again but every single person in the world. In the poem ‘Up the wall’ and ‘Homecoming’ by Bruce Dawe he explores wanting to belong and belonging.

The poem "Homecoming" originates from Bruce Dawe. Its journey tells us aspects of war and its devastations upon human individuals. The poem starts off in what seems to be a monotone. With many simple verbs such as "picking... bringing.... rolling ... whining..." are used to show how days after days, it is all the same. The bodies of the soldiers, days after days are all monotonously follow the same routine and being treated in a somewhat a seemingly cold and offhanded way.

Dawe expresses how the dead soldiers have been dehumanised and are no longer treated as people but only as priceless objects. He used objectives that explain how Politian’s send men into war because they are hungry for more, they do not actually care about their people or what they are doing to the veteran’s families. As you look deeper into the poem you begin to be able to read in between the lines. Dawe suggests that these soldiers have lost their identity and are now only objects buried 6 foot under the ground and no longer belong to a community. They are brought home with a “mute salute”.

She says, ‘They nearly drove me up the wall!’

She says, ‘I could have screamed and then the phone-!’

She says, ‘There is no one around here I can call, If something should go wrong I’m all alone!’

These quotes and written by Bruce Dawe in the poem ‘Up the Wall’. It is similar to...