Innocence In Glen Harwood's Barn Owl

Glen Harwood, an Australian poet has depicted important themes and messages throughout her poems. These themes underlying message is the loss of innocence, that is seen throughout Glen Harwoods “ Barn Owl” and “Mother who gave me life” poems.

The evidence of the key theme of loss of innocence can be clearly seen throughout Glen Harwoods poem “Barn Owl”. A key example of the loss of innocence in “Barn Owl” is where the child who is at first described as an “innocent child” then as the poem progresses and the child loses their innocence by killing the barn owl the child is then referred to as a “horny fiend” and lastly the child is mentioned as “afraid”.
Likewise the idea of losing ones innocence is explored deeper in another one of Glen Harwood’s