Bruce Dawe, mentos, incubus; how is consumerism affecting our world?

Remember man from dust you come and to dust you shall return. This is a central idea of Bruce Dawe’s work; no matter mow many materialistic items we acquire and consume, we all end up in the same place. Dawe’s poems are a recollection on the world and issues around him. His aim was to depict the social problems concerning the common Australian suburban resident. This is evident through his mocking approach to these issues.

Bruce Dawe’s work, Enter without so much as knocking and Americanized are poems that are critical of consumerism in the modern world. Enter without so much as knocking is a story of one man’s life from birth until after death, and is a highly satirical look at modern society and its materialism. Similarly, Americanized is written in a predominantly bitter and ironic tone.

However it is not only found in poetry and the eyes of an antagonistic old man, that, we notice consumerism in our own society. If we take a look at advertisements and television wh...