An Ecocritical Perspective on Australian Aborigine by Jack Davis

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to study Jack Davis poem Australian Aborigine from an ecocritical perspectives.

The poet laments on Warrwa people of Western Australia. The atrocities of the Europeans that happened in the history are briefly revealed in the poem. The poet highlights on the struggles faced by the aborigines and touches upon several events to show how a tribe was erased without any trace of existence. The poet expresses anger in a straight forward manner. The brutalities of the European colonisers are vividly shown. The oppression and suffering that the colonizers caused to them is the heart of the poem. The loss of people living around the Lake George Hills and Murray tribe without a trace are the major focus. The disaster has taken place by all ways and means to such an extent that the race has disappeared. As a result the aborigines cultural values, children and lands were snatched away.