New Horizons Hayman Analysis

New Horizons is an Indigenous creative spirt poem written by Sandra Gaal Hayman. New Horizons is written from an Indigenous perspective and it explains the expression and emotions experienced by an Indigenous Australian people. The poem address the message of an Indigenous person in a lot of pain and finally free and no longer captive. An effective selection and variety of language features and text structures used in New Horizons by Sandra helps create and see that an Indigenous perspective has been represented. The importance of identity is effectively shown to readers of the poem through the use of subject, purpose, tone, language features and structural devices.

The subject, tone and purpose of this poem help the author’s message to be shown effectively. The
As the reader explores the text, topic sentences such as ‘I heard your cries. . .’, ‘Nowhere to run. . .’ and ‘You stayed in the shadows. . .’ lead the reader to understand the sadness, oppression, and loss of identity experienced by Indigenous Australians. The text structure in ‘New Horizons’ is used to evoke emotions from the reader and engage the readers into the theme and to inspire them to understand the emotions experienced by Indigenous people going through the pain.

Hayman’s poem ‘New Horizons’ delivers the representation that an Indigenous person is in a lot of pain and is full of emotions and in the end he is free and is not held captive anymore. Hayman has successfully used language features like imagery, rhetorical questions and rhyme to help further explain this message. The sentence structure in the poem allows the poem to flow well. Overall the poem by Hayman is an inspirational and moving poem that demonstrates an Indigenous perspective of a person leaving behind all the pain and moving forward to be free and no longer held