Top Notes HSC: Bruce Dawe (Standard 2004-08)

Collected Poems by Bruce Dawe – Standard Module A: Experience Through Language (HSC 2004–2008)

The Top Notes series has been created to assist HSC students of English in their understanding of set texts. Top Notes are easy to read, providing analysis of issues and discussion of important ideas contained in the texts.

Particular care has been taken to ensure that students are able to examine each text in the context of the module it has been allocated to.

Each text includes:

• Notes on the specific module
• Plot summary
• Character analysis
• Setting
• Thematic concerns
• Language studies
• Essay questions and a modelled response
• Other textual material
• Study practice questions
• Useful quotes

Contents

• Introduction
• Course Information
• Module A "Dialogue"
• Poetry Criticism
• Studying Poetry
• Poetic Technique
• Glossary
• Module Focus
• Bruce Dawe: The Poet
• "Up The Wall"
• "Weapons Training"
• "Pleasant Sunday Afternoon"
• "Bedroom Conversations"
• "Big Jim"
• "Enter Without So Much as Knocking"
• Other Related Texts
• "Kath and Kim"
• "War of the Worlds"
• "The Night that Panicked America"
• The Dialogue Essay
• Other Types of Responses