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The poem “The Dispossessed” and the song “Say Something” have both shaped my personal understanding of the wider world and in particular relationships. This song and poem both deal with the idea of relationships in very different negative ways. Through an analysis of this song and poem I will show how they portray different relationships and how this has changed my view of the world.
The poem “The Dispossessed” By Oodgeroo Noonuccal captures from a third person perspective the loss of aboriginal culture, their strong relationship with the land and their quest for justice. It is a severe criticism of European settler’s treatment of indigenous Australians. I interpreted this poem as the story of an indigenous Australian man who had his once peaceful relationship with his land destroyed by …show more content…
The writer doesn’t shy away from the critical view and uses strong words such as “rape, murder and raid” to impact the reader. The continuous AA, BB, CC rhyming pattern produces a strong rhythm in the reader’s voice, which helps to heighten the sense of anger and outrage towards the aboriginals being “shot and poisoned and enslaved. Oodgeroo’s choice of words are as equally depressing: “degraded and oppressed… you are the disposed.” The assonance of the hard ‘d’ sound emphasises the feeling of the hard, callous treatment. She also criticises the fundamental European values of religion and justice. The Europeans pride themselves on equality however contradicted themselves by taking away justice from the indigenous Australians, This is seen in the line “justice of the white man means justice to you denied”. In the line “They brought you the bible and disease, the liquor and the gun” Oodgeroo is deliberately using a Juxtaposition of in this case the positive word bible and negative words disease, liquor and gun which imply that Christianity played as
The poem “The Dispossessed” and the song “Say Something” have both shaped my personal understanding of the wider world and in particular relationships. This song and poem both deal with the idea of relationships in very different negative ways. Through an analysis of this song and poem I will show how they portray different relationships and how this has changed my view of the world.
The poem “The Dispossessed” By Oodgeroo Noonuccal captures from a third person perspective the loss of aboriginal culture, their strong relationship with the land and their quest for justice. It is a severe criticism of European settler’s treatment of indigenous Australians. I interpreted this poem as the story of an indigenous Australian man who had his once peaceful relationship with his land destroyed by …show more content…
The writer doesn’t shy away from the critical view and uses strong words such as “rape, murder and raid” to impact the reader. The continuous AA, BB, CC rhyming pattern produces a strong rhythm in the reader’s voice, which helps to heighten the sense of anger and outrage towards the aboriginals being “shot and poisoned and enslaved. Oodgeroo’s choice of words are as equally depressing: “degraded and oppressed… you are the disposed.” The assonance of the hard ‘d’ sound emphasises the feeling of the hard, callous treatment. She also criticises the fundamental European values of religion and justice. The Europeans pride themselves on equality however contradicted themselves by taking away justice from the indigenous Australians, This is seen in the line “justice of the white man means justice to you denied”. In the line “They brought you the bible and disease, the liquor and the gun” Oodgeroo is deliberately using a Juxtaposition of in this case the positive word bible and negative words disease, liquor and gun which imply that Christianity played as