Blkfer The overall message portrayed in this

n- “blks hoo display blknez” Use of the word “display” creates a sense of
falsity/fakeness to suggest that these people
jungal
don’t feel connected to their culture anymore.
“n they say t’me” This colliquation of the “proper” English shows
the Aboriginal way of speaking and their
continued struggle against the white Australians.
text is that the Aboriginal people have
been downplayed for years and the
white Australians have been trying to
turn the Aboriginals into them by
changing their dress and culture. But
the Aboriginal people reject this
pressure and want to live their life by
their own culture

“Haylo of they hair” Angelic imagery shows that these people seem
to be higher in power than the speaker

“Soiled blknez”
'ime gonna lif yoo outta yore blk hole
n sho yoo how t’wlk n dress n tlk”
The use of “soiled” creates a metaphor to refer
the Aboriginal people and their culture as dirty
and negative.
This playful subversion of previous quote in the
first indentation shows that the speaker and
perhaps the whole community has found a new
identity and feeling about their culture.
The structure of this poem is
interesting with two identical indents
with a different meaning for each. The
voice is colloquialized to represent the
way the Aboriginal people speak
English, and the tone is playful yet
with a serious message behind the
poem.
Whi “Black Humour The immediate juxtaposition of black/white The underlying message of this text is
creates a beginning motif and suggests division that the Aboriginal people can live lives
te White Stucco Dreaming” in life just as white Australians do and that
Stuc they can have very similar childhoods
co which is shown through the
Dre “Chocolate handprints like dreamtime juxtaposition of black and white and
Visual imagery of muddy + dirty hand links back
the nostalgic experiences that all
ami fraud. Laid across white stucco” to Ab. Australian original paintings. However, it
people can have.
is “Fraud” which shows a disconnection to the
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Ab. past.

“That just made Dad see black”

The motif is beginning to mean anger taking
over and creates a sense of danger.

“Wishing they were there with us”
“Saturday morning grass cuts”
“Ice-cream trucks”
“Little black minds”
Ambiguous meaning could represent the police
being with them to arrest the people or being
there to have fun with the family.
All aural imagery of nostalgia shown through
the speaker's experiences living a typically
“white” lifestyle.
The structure includes 3 stanzas of
varied size with the tone being quite
relaxed and the delivery of lines is
very streamlined and natural almost
like a nostalgic dream. The voice also
speaks of nostalgic childhood times in
a relaxing tone.