Oodgeroo Noonuccal‚ an Australian poet‚ uses her work to convey the aspects of Australianexperience. Noonuccals poems mainly focus on her own perspective of the culture and beliefs of the both the Indigenous people and white Australians‚ the racial discrimination that the Aboriginessuffered and the Indigenous peoples spirituality. Oodgeroo uses language and poetic techniquessuch as colloquial language‚ metaphor and repetition‚ to portray these aspects.No more Boomerang compares the differences
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The past: The past is a poem about race‚ identity and the people who have been forgotten. The poem is written in 1970‚ the writer is named Oodgeroo Noonuccal. She is from the tribe Noonuccal. She talks about the past‚ she is very eager to tell the reader that the past is something that shouldn’t be forgotten. We are agreeing on her way of thinking. The past is a fact that we can’t just sweep under the carpet. The past is what makes the world and the individual what they are today. As she says: The
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How the language of ‘We are going and ‘Let us not be bitter’ demonstrates Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s perspective on Aboriginal rights. Oodgeroo Noonuccal was an Australian poet‚ activist‚ artist and a campaigner for Aboriginal rights. Her poems ‘We are going’ and ‘Let us not be bitter’ conveys the loss of the Indigenous culture and how much they suffered because of this. Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s perspective on Aboriginal rights is impassioned‚ concern and worry for the loss of her family and home. She expresses
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Oodgeroo Noonuccal was born in 1920 on Stradbroke island (Minjerriba to the Aboriginal people)‚ which was in Queensland‚ and she was born into the Noonuccal people of the Yuggera group. She was an actress‚ writer‚ teacher‚ artist and a campaigner for the Aboriginal people. Oodgeroo shared a trait with her father that was the sense of injustice. She left school at the age of 13 and worked as a domestic servant until 1939. After that she volunteered for service in the Australian Woman’s Army Service
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Let’s talk about the poem Then and Now. This poem is about how non-indigenous people have taken over the land and have changed the way it is used.The Poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal comparing the past to the present and reflecting on how different her life is now. In comparison to how it was then. For example‚ “In my dreams I hear my tribe Laughing as they hunt and swim‚ But dreams are shattered by rushing car‚ By grinding tram and hissing train‚ And I see no more my tribe of old”. People write poems
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1: A) Indicate the Indians’ puzzlement over the ways of the white men. The line “and I don’t understand” is using repeatition through the story and conveys the confusion and puzzlement over the white men’s ways. B) Show the Indians’ disapproval of the whites’ treatment of land. Phrases like “there is no quiet place in the white man’s cities” display the disapproval the Indians have over the whites’ treatment. C) Words that show the importance to the Indians of their ancestors’
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Australian Poets: Oodgeroo Noonuccal This week we will be talking about an aboriginal poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal‚ also known as Kath walker‚ who lived from 1920 until 1993. Oodgeroo came from the Noonuccal tribe in Queensland. Once she had completed primary school she left because she believed that even if she stayed in school there wasn’t the slightest possibility of getting a better. Oodgeroo travelled the world telling others about the dreadful conditions the aboriginals were living under
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Oodgeroo Noonuccal‚ formerly known as Kath Walker‚ is an Australian aboriginal poet. Her poems are politically charged and record the aboriginal resistance to White Australian cultural and political domination. Noonuccal’s poetry and activism can be seen as response to the coloniser’s master discourse which marginalises the natives as ‘others.’ Helen Tiffin in her essay “Post-colonial Literatures and Counter-discourse” mentions that “the rereading and rewriting of the European historical and fictional
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In her poem “Colour Bar” Oodergoo Noonuccal states her firm belief that racism is extremely wrong and unjust. She achieves this by using visual techniques including metaphor and description; also by using sound techniques including alliteration‚ repetition‚ assonance and rhyme. With the use of metaphor and description‚ Kath Walker expresses her opinion that racism is disgusting behaviour which shows the worst side of people. “The Colour Bar! It shows the meaner mind of moron kind‚” suggests that
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the message they are trying to convey. I have chosen to talk about the poems “We are going” and “All One Race” both written by Oodgeroo Noonuccal. The poem shows their experience through a variety of themes such as displacement and loss‚ connection to the land‚ bravery‚ equality‚ hope and resilience as well as their identity. The poem “We are going” by Oodergoo Noonuccal effectively shows the Indigenous experience through the theme of displacement and loss as well as their connection to the land
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