Eva Johnson’s poem, ‘Protection’ exposes that cultural power can be used by another culture to disenfranchise another. Eva Johnson is saying that some cultural power can be stronger than another. it was extremely unfair when the British used their power against other weaker cultures making them feel powerless. One of the techniques used is repetition because they repeated “gone” to show how meaningful it is. It links to cultural power because repetition is showing how important something is, in this case it’s a culture. By repeating the word gone. It shows how important culture is. And it also gives a sense of loss and makes you feel how the Aboriginals lost their sense of identity, both physically and mentally. But Eva Johnson also used imagery, she used sentences like, “ they herded us onto reserves “ to make the reader get an idea of what it might look like. It links to cultural power, because imagery gives the reader an image in their head to what their type of power looks like. Capitalisation is another technique that Eva Johnson used in her poem because when she uses the word “protection” she puts it in all capitals “PROTECTION” this is how she adds strength to the word by making it sound more important and strong. The technique links because it enforces the word “PROTECTION” because it shows how the British came and when they came they said they needed “protection” so she’s showing that they were lying to everyone and uses the word “PROTECTION” to add more strength to the word so people can really understand what happens. Overall the poet’s message is that cultural power can be wielded to silence and suppress other cultures.