Imagining Self: Judith Wright’s Womanhood in Her Poem’s Woman To Child and Request to A Year
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While teaching at the University of Kashmir, Department of English, I encountered Australia’s one of the most phenomenal poets, Judith Wright and her captivating poetry. This paper is a detailed and a critical study of her poems Woman to Child and Request to a Year. The paper aims at acquainting readers with the vision of her mother country, Australia, her idealised portrayal of womanhood and self-actualisation. This paper also focuses on the clarity of language she uses, the depth and transparency of her imagery and symbols she utilises to bring home the theme of her poems. Judith Wright’s poetry has a unique characteristic and a typical style when it comes to the utilisation of her two crucial and relevant subjects concerning her mother country: ‘Australian Aspect’ wherein she frequently relates to the old traditional style of Australia’s history and the harsh landscape as a peculiar Australian trait and the feministic side of her thought process gets reflected from her ‘Woman’s View’ which becomes her favoured theme in most of her poems, where her creativity relates the historical and contemporary realities a woman perceives in a certain way different from that of the male counterpart.
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