SOMETIMES GLADNESS

Focus Text Poetry By Bruce Dawe Dawe asserts, '...poetry...helps us to see ourselves and our world more clearly'.

Sometimes:
Ocassionally Now and Then Every so often Not all the time Periodically Rarely Seldom Intermittently Sporadic Irregularly Infrequently

Gladness:
Happiness Joy Cheerfulness Delight Pleasure Contentedness Glee Enjoyment Gratefulness

THE LESSONS LIFE TEACHES US

Are positive and negative Can be harsh Can be pleasing Can leave us confused Can be mind blowing Can be common sense Can come from others experiences

What do you believe the title Sometimes Gladness means when considered in terms of the Context The Lessons Life Teaches Us? Read A Victorian Hangman Tells His Love, On the Death of Ronald Ryan and The Sting and consider their historical contexts and the messages Dawe is aiming to convey through them to the reader. How are these poems connected? How do they relate to the anthologys title and the Context?