------------------------------------------------- ‘In the park’ – Gwen Harwood (page 151) Initial impressions: * First and last lines rhyme‚ middle two lines rhyme. * Generates compelling rhythm * About meeting someone form past – comparing life with past * Sense of how hard her life with children is – husbands’ decision? * Sense of loss of individuality‚ sacrifice for children especially in comparison to past life. Line 1: * ‘her clothes are out of date’ connotation –
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In the park‚ is a sonnet which was written by Gwen Harwood. The sonnet explores the concept of sacrifice by demonstrating the relationship of two individuals‚ including a woman who is bound by her responsibilities of motherhood. The perspective given about the concept is coming from two different individuals. The unidentified woman’s perspective is a reflection of her life‚ which is an emotional life journey. She is bound by her responsibilities as a mother‚ which stops her from pursuing her goals
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HSC Preparation Gwen Harwood Poetry “The Violets”: Maturation and Growth: In “The Violets‚” the persona experiences a transition from childhood innocence to experience‚ sparking the process of maturation. This idea of childhood innocence is a Romantic ideal‚ and the process of growth that one experiences from this state of innocence to adulthood takes place when the persona learns about the inevitability of time. The dialogue‚ “Where’s morning gone?” is representative of this realisation‚ with
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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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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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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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experiences held in the subconscious illuminate an adult’s perception. Harwood uses tense shifts throughout her poetry to emphasise and indicate the interweaving and connection the past and the present hold. By allowing this examination of the childhood memories‚ Harwood identifies that their significance is that of an everlasting memory that will dominate over time’s continuity and the inevitability of death. Three poems written by Harwood that emphasise the idea of memory’s importance and its ability
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MODULE B: GWEN HARWOOD Opportunities for an individual to develop understanding of themselves stem from the experiences attained on their journey through life. The elements which contribute to life are explored throughout Gwen Harwood’s poems‚ At Mornington and Mother Who Gave Me Life‚ where the recollection of various events are presented as influences on the individual’s perception of the continuity of life. Both poems examine the connections between people and death in relation to personal connections
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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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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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