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    YEAR 13 LESSON NOTES

    THEME: “GLOBALIZATION”

    TITLE: “Sunday Sadness” by Konai Helu Thaman


    Smell the odour Of
    the Sunday ‘umu
    Empty, the coals smoking from
    killer waters.
    The day’s haunting eerie idleness
    Envelopes papa’s heap
    Of breadfruit crusts
    Scarred remains of futile attempts
    Of teethless gums;
    Pieces of Kiwi muttons flaps
    Flavour market-grown taro leaves,
    Welcoming change to
    Tinned ‘Ocean’ fish
    Savior of now dormant of fishermen
    And statistical farmers
    Cold manioc, once famine famed Now
    daily bread,
    Stare from mama’s shrunken dish
    At tearless people with velvet shoes
    Who have ceased to walk
    The good rich island earth Of
    yam harvests
    And plentiful Sundays …………

    Come, look through the smoke Of


    the dying fire
    At grandpa’s ghost weeping Quietly
    cursing
    The forbidding sultry silence
    YEAR 13 POETRY LESSON NOTES COPYRIGHT@ AVIA ROSIE – DHS- 2021

    STYLE:
    1. REPETITION:
    The word ‘Of’ is repeated in first stanza four times and once in the second stanza. This shows the
    rapid changes with our traditional lifestyles, food in this poem is used to depict that change.

    2. IMAGERY:
    ‘Sunday ‘umu’ it – resembles the usual practice that the Tongans does every Sunday, these things
    are dying out. Changes in their cooking habits have changed from traditional cooking to
    modernize cooking methods.
    • For example. ‘umu’ is a traditional cooking method which is dying out and the persona is
    saddened due to these changes.
    • ‘Envelopes’- show how sacred traditional knowledge is yet it is an eye sore to see it
    changing
    • ‘teethless gums’: depicts a culture that does not play any major influence to its people
    due to the influence of westernization.
    knowledge.

    3. CHOICE OF WORDS
    • The use of traditional words such as ‘umu’ adds a sense of realistic situation and creating
    a serious tone. This also shows that traditional ways cannot be replaced by westernized
    way, it can be for simpler and easier way but it is losing its real flavor and meaning.
    • The use of these words makes us (readers) understand that traditional knowledge is
    irreplaceable no matter how hard we try to.

    THEMES:

    a. CHANGES ARE INEVITABLE:


    The poem is a reminisce on the beauty of traditional knowledge and how saddened the persona is
    seeing the changes they are vulnerable towards in which they cannot be in control with. This
    solely relies on the individual decisions. It is an inescapable matter only if we choose to be
    changed by it.

    b. CULTURAL DETERIORATION:
    Traditional skills and knowledge are dying out if the changes are not reciprocal (give-and-take) or
    come into a mutual understanding which is superior to the other. Education is the most common
    agent of this change, in order for the change to be reciprocal one need to understand the value of
    the other. Since traditional knowledge was there before western knowledge, than the new
    knowledge or formal education need to use traditional knowledge as a guide so that they do not
    clash. As a result of not reciprocating it creates the change which sadly becomes a dying culture
    after all.

    c. EFFECTS OF GLOBALIZATION:
    We need not to be easily influenced by the beautiful attraction of the new knowledge or
    ways, but being firm with traditional knowledge and using them as our pillars of strength.
    This will remind
    4. PERSONIFICATION
    ‘Of the dying fire’- culture as clearly seen as dead something that was literally alive is now dead
    since it is not utilized. People find westernized way simpler and easier than that of traditional
    us of our identity and making things simpler. But living one world or being westernized will
    create a huge blunder in one’s life yet leading to unsolved mysteries. People tend to lose their
    identity if they allow themselves to be drowned through the influence of westernizers.

    YEAR 13 POETRY LESSON NOTES COPYRIGHT@ AVIA ROSIE – DHS- 2021

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