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Can someone please help me with my homework? I have to write about a poem (down below) and then it has what i have to write about it. it’s so hard and confusing! Thanks 
I’ve asked teachers and everything and they won’t help me grr. Sorry that it’s so long. And I just put the poem all on one line as it took up to much room. It’s written by an aboriginal poet as well.
“Civilisation”
We who came late to civilisation, missing a gap of centuries. When you came we marvelled and admired, but with foreboding. We had so little but we had happiness, each day a holiday, for we were people before we were citizens, before we were ratepayers, tenants, customers, employees, parishioners. How could we understand, white mans gradings, rigid and unquestioned, your sacred totems of lord and lady. Highness and holiness, eminence, majesty. We could not understand, your strange cult of uniformity, this mass obedience to clocks, time tables. Puzzled, we wondered why, the importance to you, urgent and essential, of ties and gloves, shoe polish, uniforms. New to us were jails and orphanages. Rents and taxes, banks and mortgages. We who has so few things, the prime things, we had no policemen, lawyers, middlemen, brokers, financiers, millionaires. So they bewildered us, all the new wonders, stocks and shares, real estate. Compound interest, sales and investments. Oh we have benefited, we have been lifted with new knowledge, a new world opened. Suddenly caught up in white man ways gladly and gratefully we accept, and this necessity. But remember, white man, if life is for happiness, you too, surely, have much to change.
-Written by Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath walker)
Poetry oral task. ( 3rd person)
Introduction.
1.Perform the poem.
2.Poet? Title? Time written? (socio historic/cultural context) purpose / a comment on its merit/achievement.
Purpose of the task – “Remember you are explaining what the poem says about Australian IDENTITY.
Body Paragraph.
Convey.
1.Subject + background setting (socio historic/ cultural context)
2.Purpose – talk about the poets’ message / theme about what it is to be Australian / Australian identity. (Quote a line/s that illustrates this and explain what or how it shows this.)
3.How? Craftsmanship. – Language devices/ imagery, sounds, (onomatopoeia) metaphor/simile. Rhythms/ assonance. Consonance etc. You must give examples from the poem and explain what effect this has AND what role it has in conveying the poets meaning.
Conclusion.
Overall comment based on your reading about what the poet values + believes in.
It also had to be written in one of three ways:
select a narrative poem and from your propestive, discuss how the poet represented the situation/characters in the poem and how this was accomplashed.
or
select a narrtive poem and in character, discyss how the poet represented you in the poem and how this was accomplished.
or
select a nartive poem and in character as the poet discuss how you represetned the situation/characters in the poem and how this was accomplished.
I’ve asked teachers and everything and they won’t help me grr. Sorry that it’s so long. And I just put the poem all on one line as it took up to much room. It’s written by an aboriginal poet as well. “Civilisation”
We who came late to civilisation, missing a gap of centuries. When you came we marvelled and admired, but with foreboding. We had so little but we had happiness, each day a holiday, for we were people before we were citizens, before we were ratepayers, tenants, customers, employees, parishioners. How could we understand, white mans gradings, rigid and unquestioned, your sacred totems of lord and lady. Highness and holiness, eminence, majesty. We could not understand, your strange cult of uniformity, this mass obedience to clocks, time tables. Puzzled, we wondered why, the importance to you, urgent and essential, of ties and gloves, shoe polish, uniforms. New to us were jails and orphanages. Rents and taxes, banks and mortgages. We who has so few things, the prime things, we had no policemen, lawyers, middlemen, brokers, financiers, millionaires. So they bewildered us, all the new wonders, stocks and shares, real estate. Compound interest, sales and investments. Oh we have benefited, we have been lifted with new knowledge, a new world opened. Suddenly caught up in white man ways gladly and gratefully we accept, and this necessity. But remember, white man, if life is for happiness, you too, surely, have much to change.
-Written by Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath walker)
Poetry oral task. ( 3rd person)
Introduction.
1.Perform the poem.
2.Poet? Title? Time written? (socio historic/cultural context) purpose / a comment on its merit/achievement.
Purpose of the task – “Remember you are explaining what the poem says about Australian IDENTITY.
Body Paragraph.
Convey.
1.Subject + background setting (socio historic/ cultural context)
2.Purpose – talk about the poets’ message / theme about what it is to be Australian / Australian identity. (Quote a line/s that illustrates this and explain what or how it shows this.)
3.How? Craftsmanship. – Language devices/ imagery, sounds, (onomatopoeia) metaphor/simile. Rhythms/ assonance. Consonance etc. You must give examples from the poem and explain what effect this has AND what role it has in conveying the poets meaning.
Conclusion.
Overall comment based on your reading about what the poet values + believes in.
It also had to be written in one of three ways:
select a narrative poem and from your propestive, discuss how the poet represented the situation/characters in the poem and how this was accomplashed.
or
select a narrtive poem and in character, discyss how the poet represented you in the poem and how this was accomplished.
or
select a nartive poem and in character as the poet discuss how you represetned the situation/characters in the poem and how this was accomplished.