Bruce Dawe Poem Analysis

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Paid by the week, rent your house – working class. Paid by the month, own your house – middle-class. Don’t have to work, inherited your house – upper class. As seen in the castle by Rob Sitch and enter without so much as knocking by Bruce Dawe the concept of working and middle class struggles are seen. As seen in this verse “His included one economy-sized mum, one Anthony squire –cool stream-summerweight dad, along with two other kids straight off the junior department rack.” Sitch describes the family in a very commercialized and generalized manner. This quote suggests that the family is of working or middle-class due to the colloquial language used and the description of the stereotypical family. This theme is seen through the working class family in the castle movie, the family lives of their …show more content…
The two texts contradict each other on the subject of the way kids grow up in their environment, Bruce Dawe’s poem demonstrated the destruction of innocence with age whereas the castle displays how loving and compassionate these kids can grow up to be. In Dawe’s poem, he expresses how we Australians become greedier, selfish, self-centered as we grow up from childhood to adulthood as our views on the world are shaped by society, which is seen in his reflection of Australian identity. ‘Enter without so much as knocking’ begins with an innocent and not yet corrupted child gazing up at the stars and pondering the nature of adults, through the lines “a pure unadulterated fringe of sky, littered with stars no-one had got around to fixing up yet,” it is evident that he still hasn’t conformed to the norms of society yet, a child is always being told by adults to clean up their mess and their toys so it leaves this child wondering why the stars are still
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