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Darkness
The earth weeped with pain
The land grew dark and deathly
This is our last chance
The land grew dark and deathly
This is our last chance
hunted
The predator leaps
leaps through the trees as it hunts
it is hunting you
leaps through the trees as it hunts
it is hunting you
frightnin
i'm frightnin, like lightnin
like a hornet, comin atch ya
like a hornet, comin atch ya
dragons
dragons crawl, fly and destroy everything, they bring
death and destruction, they destroy everything in their path,
they can destroy armies, they are invincible.
death and destruction, they destroy everything in their path,
they can destroy armies, they are invincible.
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aboriginal australia poem by Jack Davis
To the Others
You once smiled a friendly smile,
Said we were kin to one another,
Thus with guile for a short while
Became to me a brother.
Then you swamped my way of gladness,
Took my children from my side,
Snapped shut the law book, oh my sadness
At Yirrakalas’ plea denied.
So, I remember Lake George hills,
The thin stick bones of people.
Sudden death, and greed that kills,
That gave you church and steeple.
I cry again for Warrarra men,
Gone from kith and kind,
And I wondered when I would find a pen
To probe your freckled mind.
I mourned again for the Murray tribe,
Gone too without a trace.
I thought of the soldier’s diatribe,
The smile on the governor’s face.
You murdered me with rope, with gun
The massacre of my enclave,
You buried me deep on McLarty’s run
Flung into a common grave.
You propped me up with Christ, red tape,
Tobacco, grog and fears,
Then disease and lordly rape
Through the brutish years.
Now you primly say you’re justified,
And sing of a nation’s glory,
But I think of a people crucified -
The real Australian story.
You once smiled a friendly smile,
Said we were kin to one another,
Thus with guile for a short while
Became to me a brother.
Then you swamped my way of gladness,
Took my children from my side,
Snapped shut the law book, oh my sadness
At Yirrakalas’ plea denied.
So, I remember Lake George hills,
The thin stick bones of people.
Sudden death, and greed that kills,
That gave you church and steeple.
I cry again for Warrarra men,
Gone from kith and kind,
And I wondered when I would find a pen
To probe your freckled mind.
I mourned again for the Murray tribe,
Gone too without a trace.
I thought of the soldier’s diatribe,
The smile on the governor’s face.
You murdered me with rope, with gun
The massacre of my enclave,
You buried me deep on McLarty’s run
Flung into a common grave.
You propped me up with Christ, red tape,
Tobacco, grog and fears,
Then disease and lordly rape
Through the brutish years.
Now you primly say you’re justified,
And sing of a nation’s glory,
But I think of a people crucified -
The real Australian story.
comprehension questions
1. Who is the speaker in the poem? Is it the poet or a created persona?
The speaker of the poem is the poet who wrote it.
2. What do you think is the theme, or broad idea, of the poem? Why?
I think it is about indiginous Australia and how white people took over the land because that is what he is talking about.
3. Does the poem have a setting? If it does, what is it? Quote a line or words from the poem that shows us the setting.
i don't know
4. Does the poem feature a character? If it does, who is it? Quote a line or words from the poem that shows us the character.
The character is the the poet Jack Davis:you murded me with rope, with gun. The massacre of my enclave.
5. Make a list of three lines from the poem that feature verbs. Explain what is happening in each of these lines.
You once smiled a friendly smile: The white men used to smile a friendly smile.
You murded me with rope: They killed his people with rope.
I mourned again for the Murray tribe: He mourned for the dead Aboriginals of the Murray tribe.
6. Describe some of the images shown in the poem.
The Aboriginals on thier knees as the white men killed them with rope.
Jack Davis mourning for the fallen Murray tribe.
7. What do you think the poem is about? What do you think the poet's attitude towards the topic is? Why?
The poem is about what the white people did to the Aboriginals when the white people came to Australia. I think the poets attided towards it is, he is sad and mad. Because the white people killed heaps of Aboriginals and took over thier land.
The speaker of the poem is the poet who wrote it.
2. What do you think is the theme, or broad idea, of the poem? Why?
I think it is about indiginous Australia and how white people took over the land because that is what he is talking about.
3. Does the poem have a setting? If it does, what is it? Quote a line or words from the poem that shows us the setting.
i don't know
4. Does the poem feature a character? If it does, who is it? Quote a line or words from the poem that shows us the character.
The character is the the poet Jack Davis:you murded me with rope, with gun. The massacre of my enclave.
5. Make a list of three lines from the poem that feature verbs. Explain what is happening in each of these lines.
You once smiled a friendly smile: The white men used to smile a friendly smile.
You murded me with rope: They killed his people with rope.
I mourned again for the Murray tribe: He mourned for the dead Aboriginals of the Murray tribe.
6. Describe some of the images shown in the poem.
The Aboriginals on thier knees as the white men killed them with rope.
Jack Davis mourning for the fallen Murray tribe.
7. What do you think the poem is about? What do you think the poet's attitude towards the topic is? Why?
The poem is about what the white people did to the Aboriginals when the white people came to Australia. I think the poets attided towards it is, he is sad and mad. Because the white people killed heaps of Aboriginals and took over thier land.
Abandoned Jupiter
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