DIscovery Assignment 1 Standard English
We Are Going
Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Medium: Poem
“We Are Going” a poem written by the famous Oodgeroo Noonuccal is in its own way a masterpiece for communication to the present world about the impact of modernisation on the Indigenous people of Australia. If anything, Oodgeroo expresses the reality of the fading of the Aboriginals and expresses the sadness and pain that follows. The constant use of the word “We” in this poem creates the sense that Oodgeroo is not at all speaking for herself. She is speaking for the entire Indigenous population.
Discovery is something scattered all throughout these poem, masked by the emotions that the words bring to very particular souls. For something to be going it must have been found and along those lines this poem is based. We must dig deeper then all the sentences that explain everything as “going” and uncover what was truly first discovered to now be going. Lets start with a quote taken from the text that reads, “We belong here, We are the old ways.” Oodgeroo brings out that what was once discovered as the old ways is now changing to new ways due to the settlers. Throughout a vast duration of the text Oodgeroo brings forth multiple discoveries that were made during her time that are now slowing “going”. What the composer is believed to be doing is to hold us close to the poems meaning and to show that all these discoveries we know to be of white background truly are the findings of the Indigenous. Discoveries that we now see and possibly hear of everyday are those originated from Aboriginal heritage.
“We are the corroboree and we are the bora ground” is a sentence that combines both the land and the people to form a unity. This sparks discovery as it once remembers the fact that the people of its time discovered how indeed they were related to the land and all of its transcendent beings. To discover what creates the person you are is a discovery that depicts the personality you yield and for the Indigenous people and
Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Medium: Poem
“We Are Going” a poem written by the famous Oodgeroo Noonuccal is in its own way a masterpiece for communication to the present world about the impact of modernisation on the Indigenous people of Australia. If anything, Oodgeroo expresses the reality of the fading of the Aboriginals and expresses the sadness and pain that follows. The constant use of the word “We” in this poem creates the sense that Oodgeroo is not at all speaking for herself. She is speaking for the entire Indigenous population.
Discovery is something scattered all throughout these poem, masked by the emotions that the words bring to very particular souls. For something to be going it must have been found and along those lines this poem is based. We must dig deeper then all the sentences that explain everything as “going” and uncover what was truly first discovered to now be going. Lets start with a quote taken from the text that reads, “We belong here, We are the old ways.” Oodgeroo brings out that what was once discovered as the old ways is now changing to new ways due to the settlers. Throughout a vast duration of the text Oodgeroo brings forth multiple discoveries that were made during her time that are now slowing “going”. What the composer is believed to be doing is to hold us close to the poems meaning and to show that all these discoveries we know to be of white background truly are the findings of the Indigenous. Discoveries that we now see and possibly hear of everyday are those originated from Aboriginal heritage.
“We are the corroboree and we are the bora ground” is a sentence that combines both the land and the people to form a unity. This sparks discovery as it once remembers the fact that the people of its time discovered how indeed they were related to the land and all of its transcendent beings. To discover what creates the person you are is a discovery that depicts the personality you yield and for the Indigenous people and