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Bathos - "Breakthrough" (1 Viewer)

Jarm

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What is the purpose of bathos between the two paragraphs of this poem?
 

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breakthrough? poem by Bruce Dawe?/

batho? is that the two sentence between the paragraph and heading?
 

Jarm

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No im refering to the drop in tone between the first paragraph and the second paragraph.

First one being uplifing talking of angels and second one talking of pain and paralyzing snow.

I ended up saying "This bathos is explointed by the television studio using the cliche "earths loss is heavens gain" the cliche is a shallow attempt at consoling the audience before the next line where "comercial products are now plugged by pain the cliche softens the audience to the impending advertising. Dawe is here criticizing the sophistication mof marketing practices used by television"


What do u all think??

Im just practicing writting essays cause i havent written one since the half yearly... i didnt write anything in the trial :(
 

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Umm.. I think the chiche displays the loss of human worth, in the fact that its saying like it doesn't mean anything, like ohwell, earth's loss is heaven's gain, that what I think we discussed it to mean in class.
 

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