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    EXTENDED RESPONSE: Gwen Harwood “In your view‚ how has textural integrity been achieved in Harwood’s works. Support your view with detailed reference to at least two of the poems set for study‚ evaluating the structure and poetic techniques” Through the mastery of the unique structure‚ style‚ and coherent textural integrity of her work‚ Gwen Harwood is widely acknowledged as a ______ poet. Harwood engages the audience personally though the highly personal‚ yet detached tone and language‚ thus

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    The Lion’s Bride Gwen Harwood’s work frequently focuses on woman being demoralised by society’s practices that reduce her to a lesser being. A common worldwide value that Harwood rejects as the normality in life with her poems. Harwood battles against the traditions that she believes support this downgrading by continually returning to the issue. Due to Harwood’s existence in a time where women of Australia still fought to vote and for a pay check to match a man’s‚ Harwood too displays her support

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    central characters experience articulates social and cultural traditions‚ allowing the poet to endorse or critique the naturalized values of his or her culture. In her two sonnets‚ In the Park‚ and Suburban Sonnet: Boxing Day‚ the Australian poet Gwen Harwood uses the generic conventions of poetry to construct a central persona who‚ through their voice‚ conveys the social expectations of women in 1950s suburban Australia. Both sonnets centre on a mother dealing with the everyday challenges of motherhood

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    Gwen Harwood‚ An Australian poet who‚ seems to develop an imaginative‚ rich form of poetry through the use of recurring themes‚ complex language techniques and even further through the use of sophisticated structures only seen in the most prestigious of poems in the modern era. Gwen Harwood has a tendency to write poetry that is significant in all eras‚ cultures and/or societies of the world as she captures‚ and develops them into a strong universal theme that recurs strongly. These themes seem to

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    The poetry of the revered Gwen Harwood is demonstrative of time enduring ideas that thereby craft her work memorable and durable irrespective of time and place. This premise derives from the principle concern of Harwood’s writings; an examination of the nature of human existence and all of its many constituents. Harwood’s poetry thus pertains to the internally triggered or inherent component of the values and attitudes of the individual. Dictated by the fundamental conditions of the human psyche

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    In Gwen Harwood ’s poetry‚ the changes in an individual ’s perspective and attitudes towards situations‚ surroundings and‚ therefore transformations in themselves‚ are brought on by external influences‚ usually in the form of a person or an event. These changes are either results of a dramatic realisation‚ as seen with shattering of a child ’s hopes in The Glass Jar‚ or a melancholy and gradual process‚ where a series of not so obvious discoveries produces similar reformation. An example of the later

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    they show the distinctive characteristics of this poets’ work. Gwen Harwood skilfully employs language techniques to explore a variety of distinctive themes and ideas in her poems. This is seen in ’In The Park’ where Harwood explores the human condition through the simplistic and dull life of her female protagonist‚ while in ’Prize Giving’ she explores multiple universal themes through her male protagonist Professor Eisenbart. Harwood effectively establishes a simplistic image through her title ’In

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    Gwen Harwood (maiden name Gwen Foster) * 1920 – 1995 * Australian Poet * Mother of author John Harwood * 420 works * 386 Poems * 13 Librettos EARLY LIFE Born in Tarringa‚ Queensland. Brought up in Brisbane. She attended Brisbane Girls Grammar School and was an organist at All Saints Church when she was young. She completed a music teacher’s diploma‚ and also worked as a typist at the War Damage Commission from 1942. PERSONAL LIFE Gwen moved to Tasmania after her marriage

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    written by Gwen Harwood has a lot of social commentary and is speaking to you about a lot of things that it feels are important. It is looking to make a lot of points about Australian society and the sacrifice of having children and of living a suburban lifestyle. Gwen Harwood’s ‘Suburban Sonnet’ is a fourteen line poem with strong values of urban Australia. The poem‚ Suburban Sonnet‚ idealizes the harsh realities of an Australian housewife‚ creating sympathetic tones to the readers. Gwen Harwood was

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    The poem “Father and Child” by Gwen Harwood shows Harwood’s father teaching her the concepts of life and death‚ from when she is a young child in “Barn Owl” up to when she is around forty at the time of his death in “Nightfall”‚ coming to accept the idea that life is not never-ending. In part one called “Barn Owl”; she has learnt to accept death as a component of life. The persona of the poem experiences a loss of innocence with the discovery of the tragedy of death. Before shooting the owl‚ the

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