views and attitudes towards the gruesome subject of death. The first part of the poem‚ “Barn Owl” tells the tale of the persona‚ a small child that we are led to believe is female through the use of language‚ who is transformed from ‘innocent’‚ to ‘a horny fiend’ and finally to ‘afraid’. This transformation is also illustrated by the use of progressive actions in each stanza; “I
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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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alive’. When Harwood refers to the wind‚ she uses the particular image to allude to the human experience of loneliness and frustration‚ as the mother feels like she has nobody else to turn to. Harwood’s choice of words is monosyllabic ‘they have eaten me alive’ suggesting a sense of weariness and despair throughout the poem‚ in turn adding effect for the reader. The children ‘Draw(s) aimless patterns in the dirt’ metaphorically emphasizes her disorientation and lack of direction. When Harwood describes
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Gwen Harwood- Father and Child The ability of a text to be universally accepted in a range of contexts ultimately determines its textual integrity and appreciation. Gwen Harwood’s work draws from the inspiration of her context‚ her lifelong influences‚ primarily music‚ her childhood and religious beliefs. This can be identified through study of Gwen Harwood’s poem‚ "Father and Child" that is able to be appreciated in a multitude of different contexts due to its universality and textual integrity
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between past and present‚ and her own personal relationships with others‚ Harwood’s poetry provokes an appreciation of the past‚ and reinforce themes‚ which highlights their universal significance. Within the beginning of the poem At Mornington‚ Harwood explores a childhood memory‚ at “the sea’s edge”‚ in order to highlight her apparent childhood strength in her naïve belief that she could defy nature by “walking on water/it’s only a matter of balance”‚ only to be saved by her father. This nativity
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metaphorically states that while the mother believes her children have metaphorically “eaten her alive” the woman has “drowned a young girl” in its reflection. In both “Mirror” and “In the Park” the idea of loss is portrayed indifferently as Gwen Harwood explores the loss of identity of a mother who has self-sacrificed everything for motherhood and while Sylvia Plath explores the loss of youth as a woman struggles to accept the reality that she has
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with her family and the feeling of protection and safety gained from them‚ others may read it differently. For example a colleague of mine proposed the idea that Harwood was now an older women‚ depressed and trying to find or remember a time in her life when she was in fact happy‚ that she is trying to escape the inevitability of death by escaping to her youth. Either way her poems offer the responder a variety of readings‚ which‚ I think‚ offer her work an integrity that is not eroded by
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gathered flowers‚ with tenderness stroking my mother’s goldbrown hair. Stone-curlews call from Kedron Brook. Faint scent of violets drifts in the air How has Gwen Harwood used her poem ‘The Violets’ in metaphorical terms? Explain. ‘The Violets’ by Gwen Harwood‚ illustrates a number of metaphors outlined between the differences of childhood and becoming an adult. Such metaphors counted are used within the context of the Violet flower‚ this being placed for
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life | I Barn Owl | * Kills birds= reflects relationship- reflects domestic world and lack of empowerment-recognize birds and flowering trees are when temporal life is reduced=importance of relationships- realization love/memory * Knowledge of death * Barn=old * Owl= father/knowledge * Narrative story | Daybreak: the household slept. I rose‚ blessed by the sun. A horny fiend‚ I crept out with my father’s gun. Let him dream of a child obedient‚ angel-mind- | * “Daybreak”-Day starting
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childhood/ stable family life * The triggers of memory * The Losses and gains of humanity and how it’s all part of the human experience. Memory: Trigger 1: The Violets * “frail melancholy flowers among ashes and loam” * The sense of death is introduced in the sadness and frailty of the flowers in the consciousness of the ash and dirt. It is reminiscent of a graveside with freshly dig earth‚ where a loved one has just been interred. * Memory is “frail”‚ uncontrollable in when it
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