Metaphors In Primary Education

For this task, I worked with Sophie Davidson to create a digital story for the poem Primary Education By Yvette Holt. The poem was quite literal and did not make use any metaphors in the written work. However, after further analysis and use of creative thinking, we conjured many metaphors to add a deeper meaning to the words in the poem. I drew on my knowledge of the Aboriginal culture that I have encountered on my travels, both the beautiful culture and the modern corruption of the culture in rural communities. This poem drew on a peaceful beginning of life for the author. This was depicted in out movie by the calm and serene imagery of children at the beginning on the movie. The children represent the purity and the first clip that shows a white boy as well communicates to the audience that there was no barrier between the opposing skin colours in the young ages.
I wanted to communicate the widening gap between the white and black cultures as the world become more prejudiced and small-minded. Using powerful imagery such as the person standing against the flow of the crowd and the monkey in the cage spoke to the separation that the white people’s comments forced the author into.

I choose to put the money into the video as it is a metaphor for the old insult that was used on Aboriginal people in early Australian times. Aboriginal people were sometimes insulted using monkey. The poem reads “”but you look so clean””, a comment from a white co-worker about her Aboriginal heritage. This speaks to the preconceived opinion of Aboriginal people and so the monkey in the cage, supposedly being looked on by Caucasian onlookers, was the perfect fit as it demonstrated the blatant segregation that comment