Homo Suburbiensis, Drifter's and Life-Cycle, Bruce Dawe, a well renowned Australian poet was born in 1930 in Geelong. Who was once portrayed as "an ordinary bloke with a difference". Bruce Dawe writes about ordinary Australian people in the suburbs confronting their everyday problems. He observes and records the sorrow and hardships of average people struggling to survive back in the 1940's. Mr Dawe emphasises his views by composing three of his great simple poems Home Suburbiensis, Drifters and my favourite Life-Cycle. Poem "Homo suburbiensis"-Latin term for humans that live in the suburbs. The poem shows a classical suburban household set...
his a poet of the people, because he writes about the problems of life in a language that everyone can understand. From all three of his varied poem's it can be observed that Bruce Dawe was very concerned about ordinary people since his child hood. His poems are very emotional and sympathetic to Australian society past and present. The great simple poems Home Suburbiensis, Drifters and my favourite Life-Cycle is very ordinariness in deed. Overall, Dawe's poems are very appealing his concerns to point out injustice and those aspect of society that need to be changed is well delivered.