How do composers that you have studied express their beliefs about consumerism and what id their purpose in doing so?

Composers express their beliefs about consumerism in many ways, mediums and styles, due to its power of influence over the majority of the civilization. Bruce Dawe communicates his views and believes through the medium of poems to emphasise the grave reality of consumerism overtaking our social, ethical and moral issues of our culture. His cynical views are brought forward using numerous poetic techniques some being, figurative language, caricature, imagery and epigraph these clearly outline his way of thinking concerning this topic. Such as in the poem ‘Enter without so much as knocking’ by Dawe, the responders clearly see his incite through the many techniques used by him. Similarly in Breakthrough most his main ideas remain unchanged while new ones are brought out.

Dawe incorporates many of his beliefs and ideas into ‘Enter without so much as knocking.’ In this poem Dawe talks about a child being born into our consumerist crazed society. Since this is a sequential li...