Judith Wright’s poetry explores the complexity of personal and family relationships. Through her poems, she demonstrates this using various aspects of female sexuality through the relationship between a woman and her husband, child and inner self, responding and sharing the sensuality of natural life. Her 3 lyrical poems -- “Woman to Man”, “Woman to Child” and “Woman’s Song” convey the complex levels of Wright’s vision of life through symbolism, structure and covert language.

Wright has maintained a balance between the physical passion and spirituality between a woman and her husband. “Woman to Man” simulates the physical side of sex as passionate and intimate through a woman’s perspective.

At the same time, Judith Wright manages to portray the miracle and wonder of a potential child – “the third who lay in our embrace”—in ev

Judith also illustrates the child as its own personal unique creation of a mother and a father. In “Woman to Man”, the third stanza describes that this child within her, will contain a little bit of both of them. That in this little child, both of their genetic legacies will be passed on. The use of her language exemplifies the intimate and complex nature of the 3 people..

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