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MODULE C: TEXTS IN SOCIETY. Today’s world is no longer our world. It belongs to the agents of consumerism; media and products. All are under the leadership of money. It offers the so call benefits to save effort and time in our work and provides abetter lifestyle. But Bruce Dawe’s poems, in particular “Televistas and Breakthrough” points out, in a satirical manner and a depressed tone, the negative nature of consumerism and explores its influence on you and me as individuals of the society. In support Dawe’s view are Michael Leunig’s cartoon in the Secondary English Book Four and Tesimond’s poem “Attack on the Ad Man” The poem “Televistas” depicts that human value is lost within a consumerism dominating the society. In the first stanza, Dawe identifies the couple as “She was Sanyo-oriented He was Rank-Arena bred.” “She and he” infer us but by identifying us by television brands.
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