Question

The poem 'Aboriginal Australia' is taken from the collection

• A. North of Capricorn: Contemporary Australian Poetry
• B. Dreamtime: An Anthology of Aboriginal Poetry
• C. Jagardoo: Poems from Aboriginal Australia
• D. Wandjina: Australian Aboriginal Myths

Answer 1

Answer:

C. Jagardoo: Poems from Aboriginal Australia

Aboriginal Australia

• Aboriginal Australia is also known by its first line “To the Others” appears in Noongar playwright and poet Jack Davis’ poetry collection Jagardoo: Poems from Aboriginal Australia (1977).

• This poem is about the atrocities of European colonizers on the Aboriginal Australians. The former clad with military power sacked the peaceful lives of the indigenous people and denied them their birthright, their land, and their freedom. Those who came in their way were either eliminated or oppressed.

• In this poem, Davis details a number of brutish events occurring in Australia, starting from the settlement of colonizers till the day of writing this poem in the 20th century.