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=__Activities__= =Homecoming by Bruce Dawe=

__WARNING:__ Some of the scenes in this video clip are quite graphic in nature.
 * Watch the following video clip on Homecoming by Bruce Dawe.**

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 * Answer the following questions using both the video above and Dawe's Homecoming (provided below).**
 * 1) Why would the creator of this video clip choose images that are quite confronting for the viewer? Consider the content of Dawe's poem.
 * 2) The repetition of "bringing them home" throughout Dawe's Homecoming creates emphasis. Who or what is Dawe referring to, and why is he emphasising that they are being __brought__ home? (Video footage up to 1:06 will aid your response).
 * 3) At 1:19 the video portrays footage of the coast swinging upwards followed by a knuckled hill and mangrove swamps. Where is this view being seen from? Considering this, explain the meaning of Dawe's simile, "in their sterile housing they tilt towards these like skiers".
 * 4) From 2:06 onwards the creators have muted the sound on this video. Why would they choose to do this? What is the focus of the end of Dawe's poem?
 * 5) The last line of Dawe's poem states "- they're bringing them home, now, too late, too early". The video draws this line out with a number of images to emphasise the importance of this line. What technique has Dawe used here? Why would he choose to end with this?

= **Homecoming** =

//by [|Bruce Dawe]//
All day, day after day, they’re bringing them home, they’re picking them up, those they can find, and bringing them home, they’re bringing them in, piled on the hulls of Grants, in trucks, in convoys, they’re zipping them up in green plastic bags, they’re tagging them now in Saigon, in the mortuary coolness they’re giving them names, they’re rolling them out of the deep-freeze lockers – on the tarmac at Tan Son Nhut the noble jets are whining like hounds, they are bringing them home – curly- heads, kinky hairs, crew-cuts, balding non-coms – they’re high, now high and higher, over the land, the steaming // chow mein //, their shadows are tracing the blue curve of the Pacific with sorrowful quick fingers, heading south, heading east, home, home, home – and the coasts swing upward, the old ridiculous curvatures of earth, the knuckled hill, the mangrove-swamps, the desert emptiness… in their sterile housing they tilt towards these like skiers – taxiing in, on the long runways, the howl of their homecoming rises surrounding them like their last moments (the mash, the splendour) then fading at length as they move on to small towns where dogs in the frozen sunset raise muzzles in mute salute, and on to cities in whose wide web of suburbs telegrams tremble like leaves from a wintering tree and the spider grief swings in his bitter geometry – they’re bring them home, now, too late, too early.

=The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson=

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 * Watch the following video clip on The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.**
 * Answer the following questions using both the video above and and Tennyson's The Charge of the Light Brigade (provided below).**
 * 1) __The Charge of the Light Brigade__ is a narrative poem. Briefly describe the story that is being told. (Use the video to support your answer).
 * 2) The repetition in the first two lines creates a sense of rhythm. What images does this rhythm bring to mind and why would Tennyson choose to do this?
 * 3) Tennyson repeats "rode the six hundred" four times in the first three stanzas and in the footage above the creator has produced many shots of a large force heading out to battle. What effect is created by Tennyson's repetition of this line?
 * 4) Similarly to the video on __Homecoming__, the creator has made the decision to portray the end of the footage in silence. What is this emphasising? What does the end of Tennyson's poem reflect?
 * 5) Tennyson uses a balance of glorious language (e.g. honour the Light Brigade, / Noble six hundred!) and graphic description of the danger they faced (e.g. into the valley of Death). Find three examples of each type of language and explain what each is emphasising. What do you think Tennyson's opinion of war was?

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//by [|Alfred, Lord Tennyson] // ======

//Written 1854 //
Half a league half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred: 'Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns' he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

'Forward, the Light Brigade!' Was there a man dismay'd ? Not tho' the soldier knew Some one had blunder'd: Theirs not to make reply, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Theirs not to reason why, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Theirs but to do & die, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Into the valley of Death <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rode the six hundred.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cannon to right of them, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cannon to left of them, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cannon in front of them <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Volley'd & thunder'd; <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Storm'd at with shot and shell, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Boldly they rode and well, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Into the jaws of Death, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Into the mouth of Hell <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rode the six hundred.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Flash'd all their sabres bare, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Flash'd as they turn'd in air <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sabring the gunners there, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Charging an army while <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All the world wonder'd: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Plunged in the battery-smoke <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Right thro' the line they broke; <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cossack & Russian <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reel'd from the sabre-stroke, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Shatter'd & sunder'd. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then they rode back, but not <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Not the six hundred.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cannon to right of them, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cannon to left of them, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cannon behind them <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Volley'd and thunder'd; <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Storm'd at with shot and shell, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While horse & hero fell, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They that had fought so well <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Came thro' the jaws of Death, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Back from the mouth of Hell, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All that was left of them, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Left of six hundred.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When can their glory fade? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">O the wild charge they made! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All the world wonder'd. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Honour the charge they made! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Honour the Light Brigade, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Noble six hundred!