By Siobhan Larkin- Speaker at the NSW Writers centre 2011 Conference
Texts have the agent to shine and challenge us
It is through their genuine, personal clarification of emotionally driven desires and perspectives that enable composers such as Gwen Harwood to move and challenge our experience opinionated minds. The poems; Mother who gave me life and The asperity of expiry composed by Gwen Harwood eloquently express her own inner thoughts and desires regarding her past, present and future relationships with life and death. Harwoods texts emotionally provoke the reader to partake in a darksome analysis regarding the personal responses we severally have when confronted with the concept that death is inevitable. She prompts her audience to delve into their own opinions concerning death and reflect on these in response to those set out in each of the poems.
Throughout The sharpness of death and Mother who gave me life, Harwood strongly expresses her emotive response and unique perspective towards the confronting notion that death is inevitable. Harwoods poems predominantly convey her desperation to prolong life and the despondency of losing those who are close to her.
In Mother who gave me life, when the ward gateway of heavy glass closes between her gravel and herself, she observes the face of her aim to crumple. Hospitals are commonly seen as a mental hospital for healing yet irony has been created through the imagery of her fusss face crumpling, which illustrates how the hospital inlet has actually caused distress, quite a than a sense of relief towards the suffer. The heavy glass door symbolises the physical separation between the two individuals and the irony emphasises the emotion of distress that has resulted from the separation.
Similarly, in The sharpness of death, Harwood alleges that death left (her) mother so desolate. The accusing tone conveys the passing of her mother to be a cruel, consequential act, thus highlighting how the sense...If you extremity to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com
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