Analyses of Tribal Voice Tribal Voice by Yothu Yindi is a song which incorporates perspective about how aboriginals were treated badly and cast out and that they should all stand up to take back what is theirs . This song is an aboriginal perceptive that they were treated badly though they gave the people of Australia home, even though they get no rewards or thanks. This song represents the aboriginal thinking of colonised Australia saying it wasn’t fair to themselves and their children as they took care of the land and it was just taken away and they were cast out. The indigenous people are still dreaming for a day that they can be fully welcomed back into society, but they now are going to speak for themselves and do whatever it takes so that the future generation of aboriginal culture have a better future. This song contains many different types of language features which help communicate the writes perspectives so you can …show more content…
Repetition is used many times in this song, especially when it states the phrase ‘ You better listen to your tribal voice’, ‘So you better get up and fight for your rights’ and ‘say c’mon, c’mon stand up for your rights’. These phrases mean a lot the writer Yothu Yindi, so by repeating them many times it means that he is trying to get you feel the same angry and fearless emotion he is, so you can take a stand and speak for what you think is wrong. Personification is also used many times to show that not just the writer wants you to feel this way but other matters are as well. Personification used in this song includes ‘the whisper of the morning light saying get up and meet the day’ and ‘walking of a rainbow dawn’ which gives human characteristics to other states of matter. Sometimes not all phrases are stated clearly that is why symbolism is used to add a different effect to people’s writing to make it more interesting and intriguing. It states in the song Tribal Voice ‘All the people in
It is interesting for Lisa Kanae to use three different voices in her book, Sista Tongue. The structure of Sista Tongue is different from standard books as if to make her words flow and become active. Her message still holds truth in today’s society. In many homes, younger generations face the inadequacy of being unable to understand their mother tongues while their parents struggle with learning English. Code-switching is natural for bilingual people and those that speak to other sub-cultures. Lisa Kanae’s different voices are similar to
The verses each deliver a message of equality and the chorus is repeated with the intention of the audience considering their input towards reconciliation. The chorus is repeated 3 times, which is usually done to reinforce the central idea within a song. There are two separate verses, one that starts with the words “black fella white fella” and the other, which starts with “all the people of different races”. This format is repeated to help emphasise the idea that equality is important, regardless of your skin colour. The text structure is ordered in a way that tells a story about equal opportunity, and the way it is formatted is important in communicating this
When I read poetry, I often tend to look first at its meaning and second at how it is written, or its form. The mistake I make when I do this is in assuming that the two are separate, when, in fact, often the meaning of poetry is supported or even defined by its form. I will discuss two poems that embody this close connection between meaning and form in their central use of imagery and repetition. One is a tribute to Janis Joplin, written in 1983 by Alice Fulton, entitled “You Can’t Rhumboogie in a Ball and Chain.” The second is a section from Walt Whitman’s 1,336-line masterpiece, “Song of Myself,” first published in 1855. The imagery in each poem differs in purpose and effect, and the rhythms, though created through repetition in both poems, are quite different as well. As I reach the end of each poem, however, I am left with a powerful human presence lingering in the words. In Fulton’s poem, that presence is the live-hard-and-die-young Janis Joplin; in Whitman’s poem, the presence created is an aspect of the poet himself.
The lines, “As I said, it might help if we … we can imagine it’s opposite” use perspective to put the non-indigenous Australians into the shoes of indigenous Australians, to help them explore and understand the possibilities of not belonging.
This powerful film takes us on a journey through the eyes and hearts of four young girls from the Yorta Yorta community. Cynthia, Julie, Gail and Kay shared a love of singing, before Kay was taken away by the government and placed in an institution to learn the ‘the white ways’. The four girls reunited as adults to embark on their own journey through Vietnam, singing as an all Aboriginal girl group
After reading the play “Songcatcher”, by Darby Fitzgerald, as well as looking at an interview done with Evie Mark, their stories revealed the same key concepts; the dilemmas they face while trying to revive Native American Music. Both of these men felt as if they needed to prove who they were to everyone around them. Making the journey to find the music from inside them a very personal one. The prime focuses in each are the struggles they face to revive the music passed down through their cultures history. They also show the persistence they have to “rekindle the fire” or the love music, within today’s younger Native generation. Both stories are inspirational to the identity crisis within these nations.
In the poem pride, Dahlia Ravikovitch uses many poetic devices. She uses an analogy for the poem as a whole, and a few metaphors inside it, such as, “the rock has an open wound.” Ravikovitch also uses personification multiple times, for example: “Years pass over them as they wait.” and, “the seaweed whips around, the sea bursts forth and rolls back--” Ravikovitch also uses inclusive language such as when she says: “I’m telling you,” and “I told you.” She uses these phrases to make the reader feel apart of the poem, and to draw the reader in. She also uses repetition, for example, repetition of the word years.
Dylan Thomas wrote the poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.” It is about a son’s plea to his father who is approaching death. Two lines are repeated in the poem and addressed directly to the father. These lines structure the first stanza and collaborate as a couplet in the last. They are repeated a lot but each time, they have different meanings: statements, pleas, commands, or petitions. Repetition and rhyme scheme are parts of prosody in poetry. The rhyme scheme is built on two rhymes and forms of a pattern. The two rhymes are night and day and the pattern is aba, and in the last stanza, abaa. Even though the poem seems to have too much repetition, the fascinating imagery is more important and readers pay more attention to that instead.
This song is about the lack of human rights, and the fact that some people have no idea of the rights we all. We are all allowed to talk, sing dance and stand up for ourselves. If others try to shut us up or make us quiet, we only can stand taller, talk louder, dance harder, and sing louder, we won 't go down. It talks about the empowerment of our nation. Haters will hate us but they can 't react on their hate therefor breaking a law. In civics we have certain laws made and rules we must abide by them. The laws that we obey are a part of our government, and important to the constitution of our government. This law is a part of the federal laws.This course concepts addresses political connections through its correlations to the laws and the regulations. We all have a right to voice our opinions, and by being denied our rights we desperately need this cause for a change. In civics we learned about how certain countries are in authoritarian countries and can’t speak up, but in Canada and America we have a democracy and are entitled to talk. If we have such a beautiful right of freedom of speech, why should we be denied or silenced, we should hear in our
The musical words capture the reader as they pull him in with their rapid, lyrical flow.
Angelou uses repetition of words and phrases to emphasize King’s gentle strength and encourage the world to take up her lifelong fight. A sense of importance is imposed when she repeats the stem of her sentences, creating a rhythm compelling to her audience. For instance, the utilisation of “she believed,” said over and over again introduces an idea, while the repeated phrase “I stand here,” puts it into motion. She wraps up her use of anaphoras with the powerful call for action: “I mean to say I want to see…” Repetition is used to stimulate emotion and solidarity in the audience. The word “family” is constantly used, reminding listeners that although they not
The youth of today are more likely to have a favourite song rather than a favourite poem. Although the feelings and hidden meanings expressed in songs are often unacknowledged by the listener, they often have qualities that resemble those of a typical poem. These qualities include word choice, mood, hidden meanings and imagery. Using the songs “Luka” by Suzanne Vega, and “April Come She Will” by Simon and Garfunkle, I am going to prove that songs can be considered a form of modern day poetry.
The idea of voice is a very important topic today. Everyone wants to have a voice and have that voice be heard, whether they share their voice through social media, talking or singing. Mladen Dolar, author of The Linguistics of the Voice, proposes that the voice is the most important way we can communicate and get our points across. People use words and tone to accurately portray their feelings to others. In addition to words, people also make use of sounds to express their emotions, like crying and laughing. The connection between the voice and the body is largely significant when studying communication, throughout time humans have used varying modes of sounds to describe themselves and their emotions.
Translating a song involves a certain amount of interpretation; it isn’t just about what the writer intended. Translating a song is about how I, as the listener, feel about the song, and what the song makes m...
... been brought out in this song by using many different aspects of music closely related to Africa including the African drumming and Zulu chanting. The song did well to connect the different parts of the animal society and I also feel that the choice of the Zulu language was a good one. This language has great rhythm when sung which creates a great mood of positive thoughts and hope.