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    Mrs Oodgeroo Noonuccal Australia poet centre 344 Western Lane Sydney 2212 Dear Oodgeroo NoonuccalOodgeroo Noonuccal‚ all your poems are

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    We Are Going (Quote Burger Paragraph) The influence of one racial group could wipe out an entire community. In “We Are Going” by Oodgeroo Noonuccal‚ the poet describes how the native people‚ or the Aborigines‚ were forced out of their native lands by white settlers. In the poem‚ the Aborigines feel that they have become the strangers in their old homeland‚ whereas the actual strangers are the white settlers‚ as can be indicated in the line “We are as strangers now‚ but the white tribe are the

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    When your culture identity is marginalised you can feel dislocated and displaced‚ and believe that you do not belong to your culture or the dominant culture. The text ‘We are going’ by Oodgeroo Noonuccal explore this notion in response to the theme of not belonging. Noonuccal clearly describes the notion of Aboriginal people not fitting in as ‘subdued and silent’. Noonuccal’s use of sibilance and alliteration usage in the ‘s’ creates a soft tone effect which makes the aboriginal people feel a feeling

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    We Are Going by Oodgeroo Noonuccal They came in to the little town A semi-naked band subdued and silent All that remained of their tribe. They came here to the place of their old bora ground Where now the many white men hurry about like ants. Notice of the estate agent reads: ’Rubbish May Be Tipped Here’. Now it half covers the traces of the old bora ring. ’We are as strangers here now‚ but the white tribe are the strangers. We belong here‚ we are of the old ways. We are the

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    Oodgeroo Noonuccal‚ an Australian poet‚ uses her work to convey the aspects of Australianexperience. Noonuccals 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 peoples 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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    Poems can have a lot of context in them‚ they can include personal‚ historical and cultural context. In Oodgeroo Noonuccal poems ‘son of mine’ and ‘then and now’ shows the personal‚ historical and cultural context. Throughout this essay will take a look at the features of her personal‚ historical and cultural context in her poems. Oodgeroo poems ‘son of mine’ and ‘then and now’ shows clear components of her personal context. In the poem ‘son of mine’ has a lot of her personal context‚ when reading

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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 poemsWe 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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