POETRY - SWW 'A verse for the cheated'

Question 1

Collection of poems?

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Smoke Encrypted Whispers

Question 2

Published?

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2004

Question 3

Aboriginal Australian poetry

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often explores the effects of colonisation on Aboriginal people in Australia

Question 4

Australian identity has been

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shaped by SWW’s poetry by causing readers to challenge the way they view it (as multicultural, accepting and celebratory of cultural diversity)

Question 5

Structure

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free verse, goes against traditional western structure

Question 6

‘Tourists’

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Anglo-Australian’s, colonisers. No desire to find the truth of Australia, no cultural understanding gained

Question 7

QUOTES (tourists)

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lineation: ‘and soon left as tourists’, ‘see roadside crosses and think how blessed we must be’

Question 8

Inauthenticity

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what colonisers see is not the real Australia, only what they percieve

Question 9

QUOTES (inauthenticity)

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Title: ‘cheated’
Lineation: ‘postcards of pristine beaches/ that were no where near us’, ‘painted coral stolen from hundreds / of miles away’
Capitalisation: ‘MADE IN TAIWAN’

Question 10

Highway

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the effects of colonisation, the death is pleasurable, dangerous and persistent

Question 11

QUOTES (highway)

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Zoomorphism: ‘greedy black claws were lubricated in the nectar of broken dreams’, ‘petulant beast’, ‘monster’
Lineation: ‘a highway that carried some of us away / forever’
caesura through ellipsis: ‘… the sister of a friend’, ‘…an academic’, ‘…another mate’