Oodgeroo Noonaccal's 'We Are Going'

Oodgeroo Noonaccal was an Australian poet, artist and educator. She was also a campaigner for aboriginal rights. Oodgeroo was well known for her poetry and in this analysis three of her poems will be looked into.
The first poem that will be looked into that was written by Oodgeroo is called ‘We Are Going’. This poem is about the spirituality of the aboriginals. “We are the strangers here now, but the white tribe are the strangers” line 8, suggests that the white people have arrived in the aboriginals’ territory. Near the end of the poem, “gone” is used in repetition in lines 20 to 24. This is saying that the “white tribe,” has caused an imbalance and has caused everything to flee. Showing that their lives were sustainable before the “white