Man Of This Land

This poem named ‘Man of this land’ by Stella P.Bell captures the essence of Indigenous people’s life when men went hunting. In each stanza, Bell gives examples of how things were in the past. The producer has shown us her great admiration for her heritage, culture and admiration for indigenous Australians through this poem. Poetic devices in a literary text have been used to represent the Indigenous people’s experience and their culture. This poem consists of rhyme, imagery and personification which will be discusses further within this analysis.

First of all, Bell has used many poetic devices in the poem, predominantly rhyme throughout the stanzas and versus to emphasize the theme and to create a motion and a flow throughout the poem. The author structures her rhyme throughout the poem in couplets. The scribe used rhyme to also elaborate on how the man moves across the world. This includes ‘as swift as a bird, will not be heard’ (in stanza 3, line 1 and 2).
Bell has represented this by using ‘the sun is sinking’ (S2, L1), she uses this to represent her culture, because the sun maybe important to indigenous Australians in some way, shape or form and to communicate with the reader. Another example is ‘onward he’ll go ‘till the moon riding high’ (S5, L1). Stella has given the moon a human characteristics or qualities, Therefore, this positions the reader to fell as if these object were humans and respect the object.

Overall, the poem Man of this land by Stella P.Bell represents the man as travelling around Australia, taking his culture with him. This positions the reader to feel inspired to motivate. The poet has made use of rhyme, imagery and personification to create links to the interconnected nature of indigenous history, culture and identity. With the use of these poetic devices Stella has been able to convey a feeling of inspiration towards the