I believe Home-Coming is about Australian soldiers who have gone to the Vietnam War and are now coming home as corpses and the procedure they go through after death. During my research about the poem I found out that a verbal and visual image seen by Bruce Dawe triggered this poem. The …show more content…
For those of you who do not know a paradox is a statement that is self-contradictory because it often contains two statement that are both true, but in general, cannot be true at the same time and the notion of senseless life loss. 'they're bringing them home, now too late, too early' I take this to mean that the soldiers are 'too late' because they are now dead and cannot be saved. However it is also 'too early' as many of the soldiers had not even reached the age of 20 and are now dead leaving behind an unfulfilled life.
I believe Bruce Dawe successfully represents war as being barbaric and meaningless in his poem Homecoming. I take him to be speaking for those who cannot as he presents the attitudes of dead soldiers being flown from Vietnam. I also believe with the aid of imagery, similes and personification Bruce Dawe arouses sympathy carefully manipulating the audience to view war from his