Mother Who Gave Me Father And Child Analysis

Knowledge of human experience effectively represents a strong aspect of power upon an individual in terms of understanding their morals and personal ethics. The poems Mother Who Gave Me Life and Father and Child by Gwen Harwood explores that an individual with plentiful knowledge is likely to have the upper hand, representing a strong aspect of power in society. Dawe’s use repetition “You’re dead dead dead” emphasises the message the officer wants to drill into his soldiers so they won’t go out and die needlessly. The sudden use of punctuation breaks the erratic rhythm of the poem and underlines the knowledge which the sergeant holds that one can be alive one moment and dead the next, never knowing what will happen in battle. This knowledge