Comparing Oodgeroo's Poems 'Now And'

Poets share their point of view through what write in hope that the people reading the poem will help them understand the topic or their poem better . Oodgeroo poems ‘then and now’ and ‘son of mine’ show her cultural , historical and personal context help us understand the two poems more . In my essay this will show how these poems show the three contexts.

Historical context is represented in the poems ‘ Son of mine’ and ‘Then and now ‘ by Oodgeroo Noonuccal , Historical context refers to the social and religious views and action at that time. ‘ Of rape and murder son of mine ‘ shows and describes the pain and experiences that aboriginals went through . The quote is described as a metaphor of the brutal past and uses imagery to make a vision in our heads/mind this quote is from ‘ son of mine’.’ then and now ‘ has many historical context quotes such as ‘ once our dark children played ‘ this quote show the thought of the their land getting replaced and destroyed …show more content…
Cultural context is about how we act in society and what we do.Cultural context in the two poems shows how Oodgeroo lives.’ then and now ‘has many cultural thing in the text such as ‘laughing as they swim’ this show what they normally do in there lives and is apart of their culture the technique used in this poem is persona to show that is her tribe.’son of mine ‘ shows aspects of cultural context using ‘your black skin as soft as velvet shine ‘ The simile between his skin and the feeling of velvet shine are so similar they are compared the skin is referenced as cultural because of majority of aboriginals have dark skin .’then and now ‘ also uses ‘lubras are digging for yams’ person is used in which ‘lubras’ aboriginal women are spoken about.Cultural context relates for the traditional and cultural ways of the lubras digging for yams.Cultural context illustrates to us the thing we might seem unusual to her it is just her culture.All context show a bit of everything cultural and personal and