Timeless Land Analysis

Timeless Land - Sense Of Place

This is a timeless land, this is our land...The poem being talked about today is Timeless Land by the indigenous group called Yothu Yindi. The lead singer of Yothu Yindi, Mandawuy Yunupingu, was an Aboriginal-Australian musician, song writer and singer. He was born in 1956 and unfortunately died recently in 2013. However, he came up with some very interesting and beautiful songs and timeless Land is one of them. Yunupingu was a great believer in aboriginal rights and Timeless Land contributes to that. It is clear in the poem that the poet, is telling his own story. He also describes the place that he is referring to in a lot of depth. This definitely outlines his sense of place, which is the land he refers to in the text. The purpose of this text is to portray to the readers that the land he is talking about was, is and will always be aboriginal land. His tone in the poem is positive when he describes his place or his home but is also negative because he talks about it being his land, because

This is because it has so much meaning behind it in the fact that he speaks up for aboriginal rights and how the Europeans cannot take away his land. The poem has many poetic techniques featured throughout it. One of which being imagery. The main quote that used imagery in this poem is
"This is our Timeless Land"
Which is a great example of a metaphor. This is because it is saying that the land is forever and Timeless but he actually means it in a much deeper way. The main emotion in this poem is in the line: "This is our land...", because it is interpreting that the land belongs to him and nobody else can change it or take it away from him. From reading this text, I have made deep connections with not only the language used, but the depth of meaning behind just two very important lines:
"This is a Timeless Land
This is our