Hone+Tuwhare

=Kia **ora, 13EN. Explore and treasure these resources on renowned New Zealand Maori poet, Hone Tuwhare.**=

1. Open the link below and check out the items in the LEFT hand column, especially: This issue of Ka Mate Ka Ora is an appreciation of Hone Tuwhare’s poetry and contains tributes by some of his friends, fans and fellow writers, as well as scholars outlining different aspects of his widely appreciated oeuvre (body of work). Issue 6 s e p t e m b e r 2 0 0 8
 * A New Zealand Journal of Poetry and Poetics **
 * NZEPC ( new zealand electronic poetry centre) **
 * 'mutton birds and red wine' **
 * a collection of articles written **
 * in **** appreciation of, and as tributes to, Hone Tuwhare **

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2. Play the nzonscreen clip to get a sense of the man [] 3. Explore the Tuwhare Trust website, find out more about his life, and enjoy the collection of his poems: [] 4. Read the articles about the bronze statue that inspired Tuwhare's dramatic monologue. This site shows the actual sculpture: [] Here's the background story, with more photos: [|http://ehive.com/account/3648/object/28909/Maori_Chief#!prettyPhoto]
 * “To a Maori Figure Cast in Bronze Outside The Chief Post Office, Auckland”**

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 * 5. Check out this** **kete of extra resources:**

Paul Miller about interviewing Hone Tuwhare at Kaka Point in 2007: []
 * Other online Resources that background Tuwhare:**

[|http://www.nzonscreen.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_text=hone+tuwhare&search=search]
 * Resources from nzonscreen:**

Interview 1975: [] []

NZ Book Council on Tuwhare, with biographical notes and media links: []

Another biographical article: []

News Articles at time of his death: []

Listen to this Radio NZ audio file: http://www.radionz.co.nz/search/results?page=2&q=Tuwhare&utf8=✓

Below is a highly informative power point on Hone Tuwhare, sourced by Ms Simmons. Learn useful details about his background, his political views and how these and historical events are reflected in his dramatic monologue, 'To a Maori Figure Cast in BronzeOutside the Chief Post Office, Auckland':

The poem 'To a Maori Figure Cast in Bronze..' takes the poetic form known as a dramatic monologue. Robert Browning's poem 'My Last Duchess' (Ferrara), uses this form. A point of interest for us is that the Assessment Schedule exemplars for Achievement Standard 3.7 are based on 'My Last Duchess' (though we are not shown the complete report). I have therefore sourced for you a copy of the poem, so that you can make more sense of the exemplars (Achieved, Merit and Excellence).


 * My Last Duchess **** Robert Browning **

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The characters mentioned in this poem are based on real life, historical figures. The narrator is **Duke Alfonso II** who ruled a place in northern Italy called Ferrara between 1559 and 1597. The Duchess of whom he speaks was his first wife, **Lucrezia de' Medici** who died in 1561 aged 17, only two years after he married her. In real life, Lucrezia died in suspicious circumstances and might have been poisoned. =====

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The poem is set in 1564, three years after the death of the Duchess. An emissary (messenger or representative) has been sent to see the Duke from the Count of Tyrol. The Count is the father of the Duke's next wife (he married three times in all). The Duke shows the emissary a picture of his late wife and remarks on her character, suggesting that she was unfaithful to him - and hinting that he might have killed her because of it. =====

During his speech, the Duke makes himself look arrogant, insensitive and selfish.
[] //Shmoop// also has the poem and supporting notes for you: []

Now be impressed by this Slideshare presentation that closely analyses Tuwhare's poem 'Friend":

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 * No Ordinary Sun** Hone Tuwhare


 * Tree let your arms fall:**
 * raise them not sharply in supplication**
 * to the bright enhaloed cloud.**
 * Let your arms lack toughness and**
 * resilience for this is no mere axe**
 * to blunt nor fire to smother.**


 * Your sap shall not rise again**
 * to the moons pull.**
 * No more incline a deferential head**
 * to the wind's talk, or stir**
 * to the tickle of coursing rain.**


 * Your former shagginess shall not be**
 * wreathed with the delightful flight**
 * of birds nor shield**
 * nor cool the ardour of unheeding**
 * lovers from the monstrous sun.**


 * Tree let your naked arms fall**
 * nor extend vain entreaties to the radiant ball.**
 * This is no gallant monsoon's flash,**
 * no dashing trade wind's blast.**
 * The fading green of your magic**
 * emanations shall not make pure again**
 * these polluted skies . . . for this**
 * is no ordinary sun.**

From the Latin Requiem Mass / funeral ceremony: //et lux perpetua luceat eis.// || Translation: // ‘Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord: // // and let perpetual light shine upon them.’ //
 * O tree**
 * in the shadowless mountains**
 * the white plains and**
 * the drab sea floor**
 * your end at last is written.**
 * ** Graduale: Requiem aeternam ** ||
 * //Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine://

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// Note: // - // imperative verb // - // Invocation – prayerful pleading // - // Reverent tone // - // Reference to rest // - // Reference to everlasting light //

So, how does Tuwhare’s poem, ‘No Ordinary Sun’ reflect aspects of the words used during a Requiem Mass, or christian burial ceremony? How do these allusions affect the way we respond to the poem? (Think tone and mood.)

=Assessment Materials for AS 3.7= Below is the FHS Task for your research assessment, 'Short Txt Messages': Here is the log entry template for you to complete in detail for each of your four chosen poems: To help you with 'Step Three: Respond critically to the significant connections' in the assessment, here are two poems that show a very different perspective from Tuwhare's on the New Zealand natural landscape and environment. Note how Denis Glover's poem 'The Magpies' and 'Photographs of Pioneer Women' by Ruth Dallas convey the idea that the settlers were determined to master their environment, to control it, whether by felling native timbers and planting exotic trees and crops, or by taming it and turning it into a little Britain, with tilled fields and milking herds. They wrested a living from the soil, toiling to bring it under human control (futile in The Magpies), whereas Tuwhare's poems about nature show that the sea provides its bounty - titi (mutton birds), fish and so on. Living things have a spirit (mauri). http://www.mfe.govt.nz/publications/rma/maori-values-supplement/maori-values-supplement.PDF

From the Task for your research assessment, 'Short Txt Messages', comes the following instruction: Begin linking the connections you have discovered to the **wider context**. Consider **how the connections you are exploring show you where the texts are placed in relation to poetry written by other twentieth century New Zealand poets,** supporting the argument with specific and relevant references and details. This may include quotations and/or **references to** studied texts and/**or other sources** and/or quotations.


 * The Magpies** **by Denis Glover**

When Tom and Elizabeth took the farm The bracken made their bed and Quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle The magpies said

Tom's hand was strong to the plough and Elizabeth's lips were red and Quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle The magpies said

Year in year out they worked while the pines grew overhead and Quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle The magpies said

to the mortgage man instead and Quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle The magpies said

Elizabeth is dead now (it's long ago) Old Tom's gone light in the head and Quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle The magpies said

The farm's still there. Mortgage corporations couldn't give it away The magpies say.

Lieutenant Commander Denis Glover DSC (1912-1980) was a New Zealand poet and publisher. Well-known for radical leftist opinions, he was often in trouble with authorities. In 1936 he founded the Caxton Press, which he used to encourage a less sentimental style of poetry in New Zealand than was being published prior to this time. His work at the Press was interrupted by service in the Navy in World War II, in which he rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander and received a Distinguished Service Cross for bravery. His best-known works are the Sings Harry sequence, 'Arawata Bill' and 'The Magpies'. The refrain of the latter ('Quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle', imitating the sound of the Australian magpie) is one of the most famous lines in New Zealand poetry. Playwright Roger Hall wrote a play called Mr Punch about Glover's life. []


 * Photographs of Pioneering Women by Ruth Dallas**

You can see from their faces Life was not funny, The streets, when there were streets, Tugging at axles, The settlement ramshackle as a stack of cards. And where there were no streets, and no houses, Save their own roof of calico or thatch, The cows coming morning and afternoon From the end-of-world swamp, Udders cemented with mud.

There is nothing to equal pioneering labour For wrenching a woman out of shape, Like an old willow, uprooted, thickening. See their strong arms, their shoulders broadened By the rhythmical swing of the axe, or humped Under loads they donkeyed on their backs. Some of them found time to be photographed, With bearded husband, and twelve or thirteen children, Looking shocked, but relentless, After first starching the frills in their caps.

Ruth was born in [|Invercargill], the daughter of Frank and Minnie Mumford. She became blind in one eye at 15, then spent three years at the [|Southland Technical College] and was engaged at 19. But her fiance broke off the engagement to serve in [|Great Britain] during [|World War II]. During the war she worked at an army office and as a milk tester. Following the war, her works of poetry, //Mountain Mornings// was published in [|//The Southland Times//]. She adopted her maternal grandmother's name, Dallas, as a pen name. [|[1]] Her first book of poetry, //Country Road// was published in 1953. In 1954 she moved to [|Dunedin], where she lived for most of her life. [|[2]] Her poetry is influenced by [|William Wordsworth] and the southern New Zealand landscape. [|[3]] She was awarded the 1968 Robert Burns Fellowship by the [|University of Otago], which she used to launch a series of children's books, beginning with //The Children in the Bush//. In 1977, she was a joint winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry. Later, as her eyesight deteriorated, she received //A Blind Achievers' Award//. In 1989, she was awarded a [|CBE]. [|[2]][|[4]] []
 * Ruth Dallas** (29 September 1919 – 18 March 2008)

LITERARY CRITICISM - delve into scholarly writing on Tuwhare's poetry: Make the most of this resource when you come across a word, or phrase in Te Reo Maori:

[|//Maori Dictionary//]
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