Discuss 2 of Dawe"s poems which illustrates his belief that ordinary things in life are a good subject for poetry. Bruce Dawe poems illustrate his version of "ordinary". The poems I have studied of his work have been about life and how people deal with everyday living. Such poems as Drifters and Homosuburbiensis are good examples of how Dawe captures the meaning of "ordinary". Drifters is about a family who move from place to place, as the father needs to move by the demand of his job. The young children are growing up to learn no other way of life,...
backyard he still cannot escape the lifestyle of suburbs.

This is agood example of an ordinary life as this particular person needs to escape the pressures which highlight TIME,PAIN,LOVE, HATE,AGE,WAR,DEATH,LAUGHTER,FEVER. All which are present and Dawe makes that aware of an "ordinary life". Being achieved in his fenced off back yard.

Dawe proposes that ordinary lifestyles are not just eat, work, sleep but the strains people have to face everyday. He goes into depths of peoples lives and makes their problems obvious to the readers. Dawe faces peoples problems that do not get bought up everyday and are ignored.