Bruce Dawe is an Australian Born poet that lived during the clip of the Vietnam War. He lived through a changing clip of societal agitation. consumerism. and feminism. and it was all reflected in his poesy. His poesy revolves around the sentiments of a society that didn’t agree with political relations and created their ain civilization. The Vietnam War was controversial. as many argued engagement was unneeded. Bruce did non hold with picks made by hierarchy in respects to the War. and expressed his beliefs through authorship. Weapons developing and homecoming are both verse forms that argue against the success of the Vietnam war by utilizing strong imagination to convey the readers emotions into drama. Bruce Dawes verse form ‘Weapons Training’ is a piece written about experiences of the Vietnam War in an interesting and unconventional manner.

The verse form is written to give the populace an thought of what it may be like as a soldier when being addressed to by an teacher. Rather composing a traditional verse form with organized sentences devised with proper punctuation and grammatically right phrases. he uses a prevailing sum of slang to transport the tone of the ill-mannered teacher. The manner Bruce Dawe has refused the typical manner of composing farther dramatis personaes a contemplation of society’s behavior at the clip. The verse form is an illustration of a sergeant dressing down a squad of late enlisted recruits for the Vietnam War. Mentions to “mob of small yellows” . “a battalion of Charlies” and “their rotten fish-sauce breath” suggest of in-built war propaganda.