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Bruce Dawe Poetic techniques allow the experience to be represented in an intense and compressed way. Discuss how ‘The Raped Girl’s Father’ in light of this statement. Subject Matter The poem ‘the Raped Girls Father’ Bruce Dawe talks about the grief that the father of the victim of a vicious, unprompted rape goes through. The poem also describes the victim’s loneliness and vivid recollection of the rape as she is on her own as her mother tries to console her father. Purpose/Theme The theme is as much on the event of the rape but of the damage it causes to the victim and and the people around them. There can also be a gender reading to this play the fathers pride and maybe social standing has been challenged, this, I think the poet is trying to say, and be it very sarcastically, that the condolence should be shown to the father instead of the victim, the daughter. Emotion The extreme anger that the father shows is expressed when the poet says, The buzz-saw whine of righteous anger rose Murderously in his throat throughout the night, The metaphor used when he compares his anger to that of a ‘buzz-saw’ gives the poem dawe, bruce, image, rape, poem, vivid, girl’s, fathers, rage, poet, loneliness, girl, father, dark, creates, anger, victim, think, starts, language, intense, helps, writes, words, whine, wedge, vowel, using, syllables, striking, sounds, room, recollection, raped