“We’re running from the heart of darkness, searching for the heart of light”. How do these lyrics make you feel? Sad or sorry for the aboriginals, about how they were treated when the white settled? This song, Solid Rock, by Goanna, was published for a reason. They make people think about what happened the indigenous when the English came to Australia.
The author of the song, Shane Howard, uses strong, influencing language to represent the indigenous and describe what happened to them. The vocabulary includes sting, darkness and gun. All of these words are of insecurity. The indigenous, back in the 1800s and early 1900s, as well as the many ears of the stolen generation, would have felt insecure, being worried about what could happen to them
The author of the song, Shane Howard, uses strong, influencing language to represent the indigenous and describe what happened to them. The vocabulary includes sting, darkness and gun. All of these words are of insecurity. The indigenous, back in the 1800s and early 1900s, as well as the many ears of the stolen generation, would have felt insecure, being worried about what could happen to them