Identity

Identity means having a special character or personality different from everyone else. Good morning/afternoon teacher and fellow students. Today I have chosen to talk to you about Australian Identity. I will be talking to you about 3 texts:
1. The Spiritual Song of an Aborigine
2. The Shifting Heart
3. I still call Australia

The spiritual song of an aborigine is a literary text written by Hyllus Moris. Hyllus Moris refers himself in this poem as a river, snow, wind, falling rain, part of rocks, red deserts, eagles, crows and snakes. This technique which is used is called personification. He uses red deserts as these colour deserts are only found in Australia. This is used to single him out to have an Australian Identity. Hyllus tells us about the native animals of Australia such as the emus, wombat and kangaroo being around when he was born. Again this singles him out to have an Australian Identity as these animals can only be seen in the wild in Australia. In the 3 ...