 Complete the following phrase:  The anti-war sentiment in Homecoming is more direct than in Dawes other well-known war poem, Weapons Training, written two years later. The ironic use of the word homecoming, with its usual connotations of celebration, as the title becomes apparent on reading the poem, in which the acts of collecting and processing the bodies of the war dead and shipping them home are described in a highly repetitive fashion, with a rhythm that evokes the beat of a funeral drum. Although the poem was written in 1968, the year Dawe left the Royal Australian Air Force, it had its origins, according to Dawes biographer Peter Kuch, in Dawes earlier political awakening in Melbourne in the mid-1950s and in particular his personal reaction to 