No one was likely to have predicted that Gwendoline Nessie Foster, the child born on 8 June 1920 in semirural Taringa, part of the city of Brisbane, would become one of Australia's major poets. In ret...
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Our world is changing and evolving at an astounding rate. Within the last 200 years, we have seen two World Wars, and countless disputes over false borders created by colonialists, slavery, and ever...
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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,...
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The way that a text is read, the ideas raised, and the meaning which is interpreted, will vary as each responders context does.
A responders context has significant influence upon what ideas and mea...
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The poetry of Gwen Harwood can be viewed in different interpretations reflecting different values and concern, but all types of variant interpretations deal with theme of change, where the persona in ...
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Gwen(doline) (Nessie) Harwood
