Ignorance Of Characters In John Zervos's Poem

Through his opening few verbs, it becomes obvious that Zervos, the poet, shows his anger towards the ignorance of the Australians towards him, or his race. He reflects on the certainty that the society doesn’t accept him despite being legally Australian, which he is furious about. Earning no respect from the white Australians, he had decided to return the favour, and writes Australia with a lower case a in the beginning. One possible explanation is that Zervos is extremely disappointed by typical Australians and doesn’t want to be the “typical” Australian. Another use of language features such as personification is used for example when he says “Australia Hey” giving Australia human qualities as if he is conversing with it. His reason for