Read the poem "Something of Value" by Eric Bogle. You will find it on Blackboard in the folder of Australian poems. Bogle’s poem explores a different view of Australia to that of Advance Australia Fair. Use the following questions to determine the representation in the poem.
1. What criticism does Bogle make of white Australia in the first 5 lines?
2. In what manner was Australia ‘taken’ according to the poet?
3. How did the British justify their taking of Australia?
4. Why should those who came and took Australia have known better?
5. What words were used by the white invaders to describe the aboriginal inhabitants?
6. According to Bogle, what opportunities did the whites have?
7. What is implied by the poet in the rhetorical question at the end of the second verse?
8. In the last verse what does the poet urge Australians to do now and in the future?
9. How is Australia represented in this text?
Post your answers on your blog by 4pm on Monday, February 14.
Monday, February 7, 2011
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