Last Words

In the poem, Truganinny, the women is dying. She tells whoever is close what her dying wish is. She hardly has a breathe and within her last words, she wanted to be buried in the mountain or in the distant sea. I get the feeling she was left alone, and there was only one person that knew her dying wish. That would be the person who she told, which I believe is her husband. She was the last of the Tasmanians.

Tasmanian is an island of Australia. She wanted no one to find her so she was not put on display. The people were waiting for her to die, and were going to take her. The line "we old ones take such a long time" symbolizes how she took awhile to die, and they have been waiting. "Put me where they will not find me" was the last line of the poem. That did not happen though she was stuffed and mounted and put on display for over eighty years according to Paul Coe. (Nicole Butzke, Post 9).