Australian poet Judith Wright deals with ideas about life which affect all of us. Three of her poems are: For my Daughter, Woman to Man and The company of lovers.
Centre on themes such as love, time, birth, death and the purpose of life in these poems.
Her person one response to these concepts which involve a complex variety of emotions, feelings of fear, uncertainty, wonderment, sadness, confusion and regret are just some of her experiences. .
Her poetry abstract images created through techniques such as symbolism, paradox, motive language, metaphors, repetition and other poetic techniques.
In the first poem for My Daughter Judith Write explores the ideas of time brings change, time is inevitable and children grow up and separate from their parents.
What Judith Write is talking about when she says time brings change which means that when she gave birth to her daughter she slowly over the years she changed and developed,.
Then she left home and moved into her own house with her boyfriend. Also when she is talking about children grown and separate from their parents which means her daughter grows up and moves on.
When I read this poem I was amazed at what a poet Judith Write was to use so much power and expression in the poetry that she writes she used a lot of metaphors repetition and rhetorical techniques. One of the metaphors is of the lion as the fear that accompanies her and she needs to overcome this.
One of the repetitions would be separate to emphasize her fear and despair. One more is sibilance separate and separate we spend our days we creates a feeling of sadness, Judith Writes about things that happen to people and which makes people think for their actions that they do or take.
In the second poem Woman to man she expresses ideas and feelings about pregnancy, birth, love, past, present and future tense and the purpose of life. When I read this poem I was amazed at the growing embryo and what would happen to the child as it develops.
