Feb 29 2008
Individual Assesment Social Studies
Understand Old One by Oodgeroo Noonuccal
What if you came back now
To our new world, the city roaring
There on the old peaceful camping place
Of your red fires along the quiet water,
How you would wonder
At towering stone gunyas high in air
Immense, incredible;
Planes in the sky over, swarms of cars
Like things frantic in flight.
Analysis
Understand Old One is a short poem by Oodgeroo Noonuccal about how if an Aboriginals ancestors came back they would be very shocked to see that their beautiful land that they had looked after their whole lives is now full of buildings, and cars. This gives the reader a sence of guilt because the white men took over their land and destroyed it from its natural state. It bring the reader to the realiseation that the whit men have destroyed our natural environment are replaced it with material objects rather then the beauty it once was.
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