Good morning class and students, today I will be destructing and analyzing the poem ‘Colour Bar’ written by Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Oodgeroo was an Indigenous Australian Author born on the 3rd of November 1920. This inspirational writer was also known for being a political activist, an educator and an artist. During the 1960’s she was “Queensland state secretary of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and she was a key figure in the campaign for the reform of the Australian constitution to allow Aboriginal people full citizenship” (wiki). Oodgeroo was married to Bruce Walker and had 2 children. Oodgeroo died on the 16th of September 1993, at the age of 72.
The people included are the vile, disgusting and racist men, The taunted child, God, the moron kind and the hypocrite kind who treat people with profanity. Although these characters names are not stated we can tell they have a strong influence in the poem. These men are seen as disgusting men. These vile men jeer at…show more content… We begin with the ‘taunted’ child, who has been affected by racism in the common society. The word ‘taunted’ gives me as the reader a feeling of sorrow for the child who is not accepted to be like the others. Through the middle of the poem we are introduced to the men and women who align themselves with their religion, but still don't treat others equally. The words and phrases of ‘wrong’, ‘colour baiting clod’ and ‘exclude’ make the reader feel emotions of anguish from the abuse and racism, how it affects the victims and how they are affected as the issue grows. We see in the middle that the poem states that God loves all equally, this statement gives strong emotions because these ‘criminals’ of race regard themselves on their christianity but they still exclude. The overall emotion of the poem is negative and makes the reader feel the pain and suffering of the
