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//Judith Wright//
 * Bora Ring **

The song is gone; the dance is secret with the dancers in the earth, the ritual useless, and the tribal story lost in an alien tale.

Only the grass stands up to mark the dancing-ring: the apple-gums posture and mime a past corroboree, murmur a broken chant.

The hunter is gone: the spear is splintered underground; the painted bodies a dream the world breathed sleeping and forgot. The nomad feet are still.

Only the rider's heart halts at a sightless shadow, an unsaid word that fastens in the blood the ancient curse, the fear as old as Cain.

__**Commentary**__ Bora ring by Judith Wright was published in 1946 and it is a poem about Aboriginal Australia. Judith Wright is an Australian poet whose work was established in the landscape of her native Australia. She was a social activist campaigning for Aboriginal land rights. "Bora ring" conveys a strong sense of Australia's identity and shows Judith Wright's strong personal connection towards her homeland and tells us the issues that she was concerned about through her poem. Judith Wright grieves the loss of the culture and traditions of the Aboriginal Australians in this poem. The song is the tradition in singing of the Aboriginal people. They contained history and tradition within songs and song cycle. This shows the traditions that is represented by the word "song" is gone and taken away from the Aboriginal people. "The dance is secret" means that the aboriginal people is being silenced and invisible to the world. "The dancers in the earth" shows that their culture and history is gone and is buried 'in' the earth not "on" it as their rights and culture are being stolen away by the white people. "The ritual useless, and the tribal story lost in an alien tale" represents a strong meaning that the ritual is not usable in the modern world now and the Aboriginal's history are lost like it never existed such as aliens are on earth. The second stanza shows the everything is unfamiliar except for the place itself like how it stays but everything has changed. "Only the grass stands up to mark the dancing-ring" shows how the traditions have been abandoned and deserted. And when it says "murmur a broken chant" it shows that the chant that is once alive is now broken since their way for living is not the same. "The nomad feet are still" shows the message of white responsibility for this loss and an element of blame is shown onto the white settlers and it shows the social injustice of the Aboriginal Australians rights. Judith wright expresses and reflect on aboriginal rights by emphasizing the loss and grieve about it in this poem. She uses Australian's landscape and adds personification, descriptions and metaphors to give the readers the images of Australia's landscape but connecting to the issues that she was concern about. By giving the images human qualities, it allows the images to be vivid. For example, in the second stanza, the trees don’t "posture" or "mime" or "murmur" but Judith uses this techniques to tell allow readers to connect more with the images that they have been given. She also uses symbolized words to hide a hidden meaning behind the words. For example, when she says "alien tale", the word "alien" doesn't say much but it means that aliens are known to be non- existing in this world which tells us that the tale does not exist anymore. Not only does she use Australian landscape's to describe her feelings, but also in the recognition of the loss of Aboriginal culture at white hands. "Bora ring" by Judith Wright shows us the negative perspective of Aboriginal Australia as their culture and tradition have been stolen away from them by the white domination. It helped me understand the Aboriginals perspective of what happened to them and shows the consequences of when the white settlers took their home away from them. However, the white settlers have been silenced int his text as none of their opinions have been mentioned. This text really established the purpose and demonstrates how Judith Wright feels about aboriginal's Australians rights.

__Well done Janette. A thoughtful commentary.__

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__**Commentary:**__

This cartoon image is illustrated by Michael Leunig published in 1998 and it represents Australia and the perspective of the white settlers when they first came. This text purpose is to give off a comedic appeal to the readers. The cartoon informs us about globalization and economic rationalism about the problems and issues that are occurring now in the modern world by relating back to the past. The pictures drawn also symbolizes the representations of the Aboriginal Australians and the White Settlers. Aboriginal Australians are being silenced in this image as it illustrated clearly the colour of their skin to be black in colour and how they are sitting down on the ground. The black colour shows how the __author are racist__ as in this picture shows how they looked like shadows and are invisible to the society unlike the white settlers who has prestigious clothes and details. __Not so Jeanette - rather the cartoonist is a commenting on racism__ The level of height comparing to the white settlement, the drawing of the aboriginals depicts that their respect is not highly regarded and their opinions are not being mentioned unlike the white settlers. The white settlers walking towards the aboriginals with guns shows the white settlers overpowering the aboriginals as they were defenseless. This obviously distinguish who is foregrounding in this cartoon and the white settlers are the fore grounders. This text and the image does not match the white settlers action and their words as although the comforting words like "hello" and "welcome" are used, the drawing of the white settlers are holding guns in their hands which is contrasting the words itself. The language that Michael Leunig have used for the white settlers to the aboriginals are showing us that the aboriginals are dumb too be able to understand the white settlers. __Jeanette you write very well. Make sure that you notice the use of irony - otherwise you miss the point.__

__**Text three**__ "...the land between 13° and 17° 8’ is a barren and arid tract, without any fruit-trees, and producing nothing fit for the use of man; it is low-lying and flat without hills or mountains; in many places overgrown with brushwood and stunted wild trees; it has not much fresh water, and what little there is, has to be collected in pits dug for the purpose; there is an utter absence of bays or inlets, with the exception of a few bights not sheltered from the sea-wind; it extends mainly N. by E. and S. by W., with shallows all along the coast, with a clayey and sandy bottom; it has numerous salt rivers extending into the interior, across which the natives drag their wives and children by means of dry sticks or boughs of trees. The natives are in general utter barbarians, all resembling each other in shape and features, coal-black, and with twisted nets wound round their heads and necks for keeping their food in; so far as we could make out, they chiefly live on certain ill-smelling roots which they dig out of the earth. We infer that during the eastern monsoon they live mainly on the beach." //**7th May 1623**// //**Journal kept by Jan Carstensz on his voyage to New Guinea**//


 * __Commentary__**

This text is derived from the Journal kept by Jan Carstensz on his voyage to New Guinea on 7th May 1623. This purpose of this text shows the white perspective of the Australian natives and what they thought of the Australian natives when they first had an encounter with them. This text directly tells us the negative perspective of the Australian Aboriginals. Jan Carstensz described the land as "nothing fit for the use of man" and this implies that he does not see the aboriginal Australians as man at all.__yes you have understood this well.__ He also described the area as useless and there was an absence of sources such as "bays or intels" and "fresh water". From the way he wrote the context, you are able to imply t__hat he didn't like the land at all. understatement -Consider why he thought it useless. Useless for what? Useless for whom?__ Jan Carstensz also described the Aboriginal Australians as "utter barbarians, all resembling each other in shape and features, coal-black…" The use of the word "utter" creates a sense of hatred as well as annoyance for the Aboriginal Australians. __good work__ He also portrays a racist image to the readers as the way he described the Aboriginals are as though they were a different species. He also describes the way of diet habits as "they chiefly live on ill-smelling roots which they dig out of the earth". You are able to imply from his tone of voice that he is disgusted by them to even criticized what they eat. Carstensz uses descriptive language to create imagery for the readers to be able to visualize the setting of the land. __You have thought about the language and you are starting to analyse it__

__**Text four:**__



This image is taken during the 19th century and the purpose of this image is to show the significant change in their culture after the British settlement arrived. This is a negative view for the white settlement as it shows how the aboriginals culture and tradition is loss through the arrival of the white settlement. From our knowledge, I know that the aboriginals original style of dressing themselves are generally naked with only a small cloth and lots of ornaments or beads around their neck and their bodies are sometimes painted for several occasions. However, in this picture it shows the aboriginals wearing European style of clothing such as the vests and even their features such as the beards and hair style is almost alike to the European white sitting at the front. I am able to imply from this picture that the Europeans are trying to civilize them to become one of them. In this image, it shows that the dominant feature is the white couple as they are seating on the chair while the aboriginals are either sitting on the floor or standing up surrounding them. This shows how the aboriginals are inferior towards the whites and they weren't treated equally as the whites. __Good work - but use the language of visual analysis (remember this was taught last year and in year 7). You have ability. Keep pushing your self__

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