Poems of Gwen Harwood

end-to-end time and history, literature has captured the thoughts and sentiments of galore(postnominal) individuals while examining the nature of gay condition. As such 1 branch of literature; poem is valued as it explores the riddle of human emotions and other linguistic universal attributes of mankind that erect be divergently appreciated by responders in spite of originating contexts. As a result I am able to value rime such as Gwen Harwoods At Mornington and Father and tiddler which poetically treats the universal notion of white and the road to maturity allowing me to catch my own divisionl taste that without the acknowledgement or unconstipated loss of ones initial ingenuousness and naivety it is not potential to bring and understand.\nHarwoods Father and Child yields an examination of the extraordinary growth from innocence to experience a universal issue that can be appreciated by individuals independent of their context. My personal rationality is that inn ocence must be acknowledged or as I understand from this grumpy poem even disordered in order to grow and understand attributes of life. The persona is draw through the juxtaposition of wisp-haired  to jurist  an effective paradox which reveals her naivety and youth implying her lack of intelligence and intelligence. Her understanding of life and finale is shaped by her subtile innocence as she was a child who believed death change and final  however the phallic symbolism of the fathers firearm encapsulates the personas satisfying desire to understand this deal in complete terms. until now the first shot  turns this compelling weapon into a move gun  as the persona becomes aware of the obscene  nature of death shown through the pendulous alliteration combined with fierce imagery of the bundle of sate that dropped and dribbled through loose chaff tangling in bowels . It is then in Harwoods use of direct obstetrical delivery and imperative in the fathers wrangle end what you have begun...