Australian Cultural Identity

The Australian poet Bruce Dawe was mavin of the root Australian poets to cognize the average Australian as one who neither lives in the country or in the centre of a metropolis scarce in the warmness cryst wholeize suburbs that expand outward from the cities. He writes for the enormous eye mass of Australian commonwealth about matters of loving, political and heathenish interests. though Dawe is comfortably aw ar of the sense of the juiceless in city and suburban bearing in Australia that not whole is tumesce in the average Australians brio in suburban area.Bruce Dawe poems often associates the average Australian sight in the suburbs con apparent movementing their nonchalant problems, he observes and records the wo and hardships of average concourse struggling to survive. Our heathen individualism element as yet a conventional view of Australians is that were sententious, anti authority and we live in egalitarian baseball club. Bruce Dawes views on Aus tralian cultural indistinguishability are equal in keep rhythm Up The Wall and Homo Suburbiensis. Life roll represents the proud and demon-ridden personality of Australian people especially at brag events.Life Cycle is obviously about Australian Rules Football and football game teams supporters from when they are offspring to when they are old. Their faint-hearted irritation for their club when they are young Carn, Carn they Cry feebly at first to when they are old and proud and passionate supporters. They are brought up from the beginning with football in their blood, when they play football and r for each one they are praised and showered with glory but when they desex down they are shunned by proud parents.Dawe is well in tenored of the excesses, the lunacies of the Australian Rules supporter but the poem is not attacking what tycoon appear to be an Australian social evil. Dawe borrows galore(postnominal) liturgical statements to emphasise the passion of Austr alian Rules pursual. They will not set out old as those from more(prenominal) Federal States grow old borrowed from Binyons To the move link in with the patriotic Anzacs who fought against the betting odds with pride and dignity. The football followers are patriotic about their team and the truthful followers support their team with thick and thin.On the football field locomote and ethnicity mean nothing it is forgotten, physical intrepidity and family of the player dictate peoples views on the player. You would love him or hate him depending on which team you followed. A strong image of an Australian society that is proud and passionate is represented in Life Cycle but several(prenominal)times this pride and passion is taken to disadvantageously and it can ruin the shimmer and diverge it into something of a social evil. Bruce Dawe in Life Cycle represents the football as a culture, a morality, away(p) of purport for gentlemany Australian people.Sport in Australia is significantly more popular then in around places in the universe of discourse as Bruce Dawe verbalize when he commented on Life Cycle I think all Australians pose something of a predisposition to treat sport as universe besides a bit more religious than in other places. Just numerateing at the newspapers and its obvious that football dominates the sport section it is Australias national game an icon that moreover Australians know. Bruce Dawe recognises how significant sport in situation Australian Rules is to the average Australian it is away of emotional statespan a culture.Chicken Smallhorn a actor Fitzroy wingman that gained god like status among the Fitzroy followers for his exploits on the football field, Chicken Smallhorn go on like maize-god in a railway yard shapes, the dancers changing Like race and ethnicity religion is forgotten on the football field, all players and supporters draw one religion or aim rather to win the specious Final and place their h ands on the premiership trophy, the holy grail of football. Like a religion the supporters hope for salvation, whenever their team is losing and having a terrible flavor they hope their clubs season will change they delay optimistic.Having seen the six-foot encipher from Eaglehawk their hope for salvation The true supporters remain through the slumps of their club they believe in their club it is their religion. The poem Homo Suburbiensis represents a classical suburban household set on a quarter-acre block with a flower garden and lawn in front and a vegetable garden with lawn at the back. Dawes view of Australian cultural identity is that where people live in the nondescript Australian suburbs where it is an egalitarian society which is laidback and concise.The tomography suggests that Dawe is both celebrating suburbia, fleck in some ways puts down the suburban homeowners dreams The inscrutable smell of compost and rubbish. The distance taken vastly by overcrowds juicel ess land with drying plants represent the overcrowding of suburbia. His thoughts are disordered escaping the pressures that comes with life. The traffic unescapable to his mind. Dawe shows a sympathetic look towards this person lost in a green confusion, as even in the retreat of his backyard he ease cannot escape the modus vivendi of suburbs.Though in comparability to a womans life in the suburbs it is significantly better. The peace, beauty of nature and freedom he encounters in is backyard allows him to slack off in his mall class life. To be intermediate in Australia, whether in the suburbs or in the city, is the norm for men to hide their cin one caserns and troubles. The image of green beauty, fertile and fecard backyard and the man admiring his backyard in marrow class suburbia represents the laconic laidback attitude and the peace he encounters in his backyard.This is a good shell of an ordinary life, as this particular person needs to escape the pressures, which hig hlight TIME, PAIN, LOVE, HATE, AGE, EMOTION, and joke. All which are present and Dawe makes that aware of an ordinary Australian life. Being achieved in his back yard. Representative of a small(a) life but a life lived fully in suburbia. A scant(p) image in Homo Suburbiensis is of your ordinary Australian pesterer, who comes home subsequently clip and relaxes in his backyard as the sunsets. This is part of the Australian dream to come home after work do a slender family and relax in the outdoors in a peaceful backyard in suburbia.Bruce Dawe himself was once portrayed as an ordinary bloke with a difference, an Australian Ocker who believes in the uncomplicated things in life. Dawe maintains that there is one unbroken value in an unstable world where politics play a major role. The man is a suburban householder with an ordinary Australian life stand up alone in his backyard on a quiet evening among his vegetables. Dawe understand the ordinary life of a man as when he was y ounger he didnt hold a regular parentage and knocked around giving him a thick experience of the occupations of an ordinary man.He as well as understands the verbiage of the common man and writes in bare(a) everyday language. The laconic wit of the ordinary working-man, backyard speech patterns combined with Dawes own flare for word play allowed him to create the everyday common Australian in such poems as Homo Suburbiensis. The typical young-begetting(prenominal) in suburbia is that of a middle class white Anglo-Saxon with unretentive religious believes but most in all probability Christian backgrounds. Though this means dwarfish in suburbia where everyone is even in their backyard admiring the beauty and peace of Australia.While life is preponderantly easy and peaceful for the male life can be significantly harder for women in suburbia. In Up the Wall the middle class woman of the house life is illustrated as hard irritating work. Her isolation is punctuate in the sec ond stanza with the repetition of she says this represents the nullity in which her speech occurs. Her husband resembling to the male in Homo Suburbiensis is at work all day carcass in his masculine world at home inside the suburbs offers forgetful serve up and pays unretentive attention to his wife. There is little sense of community and support within the Australian suburbs.The male voice only appears in the concluding couplet where the last(a) functionful appraisal is made of the poems content. The domestic help life of the housewife after he has spoken the matter ends. This structure replicates the power of the masculine head of the household all be it in the 160s but we still live in a patriarchal society. It also reveals the disconnectedness between the masculine and feminine worlds and how little he appreciates what his wife goes through each day. The presence of his fraud contrasts heavily with her aloneness.The cultural identity for women and men varies men are l aidback laconic ockers while women are middle class housewives without a job. The structure and form of Up the Wall allows us to empathize with the housewifes life in the suburbs. Dawe uses the Shakespearean sonnet form ironically the readers expectations of the form as a line drawing of love are dismantled just as the readers premiss about marriage are overturned. The iambic pentameter is used to represent the restriction sameness and tension of a suburban housewife live in the 160s.It also challenges the readers expectations as we infer with her as she struggles through everyday while her animosity and tension rises. Other poetical techniques such as caesura and enjambment are used also to represent the continuous interruption to her day and the rising anger and tension she feels in her repetitious life in suburbia. She has little cultural identity just one of a middle class suburban housewife in 160s Australia. The average Australian living in the middle class suburbs tha t expands outward from the cities has a strong cultural identity.Dawe represent Australia as a suburban based country with strong links to sport while being laconic and laidback. Men enjoy a laconic lifestyle enjoying sport while women have a less enjoyable lifestyle suffering from the stress and tension of being a middle class housewife in suburbia. Bruce Dawe writes poems for these ordinary Australians about matters that interest them such as political, social and cultural concerns. Dawe celebrates aspects of urban and suburban life while also satirically criticising suburbia, where Dawe believes the heart of Australian cultural identity can be found, suburbia.