Bruce Dawes Poems and the Society around him Through Bruce Dawes poems, he has commented on the society around him, through the three poems, “The flashing of Badges”, “Enter Without So Much as Knocking” and “Life-cycle”. In his poem, “The Flashing of Badges”, he talked about a derelict that lived on the streets. Everyone that came past who were different to each other, such as if you were in the army, he would say, “I’…showed first 75 words of 557 total…

…showed last 75 words of 557 total…like a religion. An example of the importance of the sport to this person is in the poem it says, “the wedding and the honeymoon after the grand-final”; showing how much importance this sport has on him. He would rather see the grand-final then to go to his wedding and honeymoon. That is how the modern society is turning out and Bruce Dawes has shown it too us in different ways by writing those poems.