The poem Father and Child written by Gwen Harwood involves a devilish young girl misusing her father’s gun without permission to shoot an owl. The poem starts off with the time of day “Daybreak” and “the household slept”. This tells the audience the start of the poem took place at dawn. “A horny fiend‚ I crept out with my father’s gun.” A horny fiend states that the poet feels somewhat evil and devilish. The poem takes place outside the supervision from the poet’s father stating “Let him dream
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What meaning have you derived from Harwood’s poetry? Refer to 3 poems and include theoretical readings. The very essence of postmodernism states that meaning is provisional. The meaning that Gwen Harwood imbued in her poems may not necessarily be the meaning that we as responders ‘draw out’ from the poem. Harwood’s poetry is a product of her own historical‚ social‚ cultural and personal context and any subsequent reading is done by responders with their own unique set of circumstances. These new
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Mercy Home of Mercy is a sonnet written by Gwen Harwood during modern era Australia. It depicts the lifestyle of a select few group of “ruined girls”‚ who have been impregnated and exiled to live with the nuns throughout the course of their pregnancy‚ in hope of exoneration. It deals with the confronting issue of the loss youthful innocence; is a wrong decision made in your teenage years really enough to have the rest of your social life destroyed? Gwen Harwood’s poem raises the problem of teenage
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underlying place in the society. Both John F. Kennedy and Severn Cullis Suzuki provide evidence of this which is evident in the use of contrast‚ anaphora‚ imagery‚ rhetorical questions and allusion but is also perpetuated in The Sharpness of Death by Gwen Harwood. These texts provide understanding and connections within eachother…….. Distinctive Voices engage with the audience to create an understanding with people about current events. The Address to the Plenary Session‚ Earth summit speech spoken by
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Constant” Explore how this quote relates to 2 of Gwen Harwood’s Poems‚ along with 2 pieces of related material. Change itself is the only constant in life‚ whether we are looking for it or doing everything in our power to avoid it‚ it always finds a way to strike. Change comes in different forms‚ some good‚ some bad‚ some caused internally‚ others externally‚ we can never know how it will hit us‚ all we can know is that it will. When looking into Gwen Harwoods poetry we see a lot of different ideas and
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through life‚ we come to know ourselves and the world around us. This occurs through our interctions with others and experiences‚ and exploration of self. 20th century Australian modern port‚ Gwen Harwood was interested in ways in which we come to know ourselves and develop throughout our lives. Gwen Harwood shows concerns important to human experience including life‚ death‚ spirituality‚ the journey towards self-knowledge‚ the innocence and vulnerability of childhood‚ which is explored through childhood
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Another one of Gwen Harwood’s poems where psychoanalytical criticism or a modernist reading is appropriate is The Glass Jar. This poem is about the transformation from childhood innocence into adulthood. The poem deals with an individual’s perception of the universe and the romantic notion of a child learning through experience. Gwen Harwood writes about a child’s fears of the darkness and loneliness and how through his experience he transforms. This poem has a major contrast between light and dark
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their understanding of a text. Intertextuality involves recognising similarities between texts and then using your understanding developed from the previous text to develop a reading for sequential texts. “Burning Sappho” and “Prize Giving” by Gwen Harwood‚ The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and Macbeth by William Shakespeare‚ have all been constructed to explore gender roles within society. It is this similarity between these texts that allowed me to apply intertextuality as a reading strategy
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Murray Australia 1970 by Judith Wright Brothers and Sisters by Judith Wright Class of 1927 by Gwen Harwood Clearances by Seamus Heaney Colour Bar by Oodgeroo Noonuccal Couples by Kate Jennings Drifters by Bruce Dawe Father and Child by Gwen Harwood Kindness by Sylvia Plath Letting Go - Fay Zwicky Mother-Right by Adrienne Rich Refugee Blues by W. H. Auden. Sunburban Sonnet by Gwen Harwood The Applicant by Sylvia Plath The Conquest by les Murray The Late Ferry by Robert Gray The Mending
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Essay on “In the park “ In the park by Gwen Harwood is a poem that expresses the feelings associated with being a mother and feeling disconnected from the outside world‚ an issue that rarely discussed by women. This poem mainly represents the idea of changing identity because of circumstance. The woman in the poem is being destroyed by the birth of her three children. ‘Her clothes are out of date’ uses present tense to describe how she is no longer a lively‚ interesting woman. She has changed to
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