Question

"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."

• Identify the poem and the poet

• A. The Hollow Men & T.S. Eliot
• B. If We Must Die & Claude McKay
• C. Aboriginal Australia & Jack Leonard Davis
• D. I Hear America Singing & Walt Whitman

Answer 1

Answer:

C. Aboriginal Australia & Jack Leonard Davis

• “Aboriginal Australia,” 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).

• 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.