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The poetical work of Albert Wendt, Apirana Taylor,
Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Hone Tuwhare, Keri Hulme,
Gloria Rawlinson, J. C. Sturm, and Roma Potiki all have
voices that are informed by and reflect their Polynesian
cultural inheritances in various ways. The main ways in
which these inheritances can be seen to be reflected, is by
showing the poets’ inclusion of their culture’s mythology,
customs, and civilisati ....
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.... Tautahi, Te
Popoto, and Uri-O-Hau. In his poem ‘Papa-tu-a-nuku’, he
uses Maori mythology. The title, ‘Papa-tu-a-nuku’, means
‘Earth Mother’, which is part of a number of nature’s
elements that are personified in Maori mythology. Hense,
the earth being personified as a mother, and the content of
the poem involving this interaction with the earth:
We are massaging the ricked
back of the land
w ....
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