Gwen Harwood's Poetry

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The themes of race and genocide as well as the Australian (Tasmanian) landscape, in Gwen Harwood’s poetry will be addressed in this essay with reference to two of the prescribed poems: “Looking towards Bruny” and “Evening, Oyster Cove”. Particular attention will be paid to comparing and contrasting the different approaches employed by Harwood in each of the poems to creating meaning through form, rhyme and rhythm, imagery and diction. The landscape surrounding Oyster Cove, it will be asserted, not only intercepts with history, but is a place of particular significance to both Harwood and the plight of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.

According to Stephanie Trigg (94-96), readers of Harwood’s poetry can be mistaken in assuming that it can only
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