Read the poem “Botany Bay” by Omar Sakr
Describe the setting in “Botany Bay”. How does Sakr use this setting to explore Australian identity?
Your answer must include at least THREE different examples of poetic language/devices utilised in the poem. Try not to simply retell the story of the poem. Rather, try and build an argument about how Sakr uses poetic language to explore his key ideas via the poem’s setting, based on actual evidence from the poem.
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