I analysed stanzas 10 and 12.

The interconnectedness, significance and relations of East Arnhem Land is important to the Wonguri-Mandjigai people. This is communicated through the Poem: ‘Song Cycle of the Moon-Bone’. The poem as a whole communicates how all the things in East Arnhem Land relate and interconnect by describing how everything goes about their day to day lives and what they do; when, where, how and why. Stanza 10 portrays how a tortoise holding its young, swims at the place of the Dugong. It goes by its everyday life with all the other creatures who live in the area. The stanza describes the shell of the tortoise, with its pretty patterns and designs.

Stanza 12 describes the moon over looking everything else in East Arnhem Land. It shows how the moon starts off as a new moon, then grows larger and rounder until it is a full moon. It represents something which looks after all the other things. It shows how there is a cycle to all things and everything, however noticeable, repeats over and over again.

These two stanzas give you a visual representation. It uses many descriptive words to paint a picture in your head. Stanza 10, paints a picture of a mother tortoise with their young swimming in a lake or river. It makes us think how that is just one thing in a million things that happens all the time in East Arnhem land. Stanza 12, as I have mentioned before, makes us think of an all-knowing moon above us which controls everything underneath it through its moon cycle. It repeats and repeats, just as everything else has a natural order.

All these things conveys the interconnectedness, significance and relations of East Arnhem Land is important to the Wonguri-Mandjigai people.