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Two Windmills Henry Dutton
Two windmills by Geoffrey Dutton is an Australian poem which depicts…………… Geoffrey Piers Henry Dutton was born on 2 August 1922, at his family’s property Anlaby, near Kapunda, South Australia. Dutton became a regular contributor to Angry Penguins and published his first poems in the journal. In 1940, Dutton studied at the University of Adelaide, where he studied English, History and French. His studies were interrupted in 1941, when he joined the Royal Australian Air Force; he spent much of the war training, eventually becoming a flight officer training pilots in Victoria, although he was lucky to escape death in a plane crash during a flight in New Guinea late in the war.

One of Dutton's famous poems is Two Windmill, it uses many devices

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