1. Gwen Harwood and gender construction
... and development in the construction of women and gender roles as well as loss of identity. The typography of the poems, structure and figurative language are techniques employed by Harwood in order to convey this meaning. The use of typography in "Long after Heine" reflects Harwood's opinion of ... that women will always identified themselves by how society identifies them and in that sense, they are restrained to a society's expectations. Another gendered reading could suggest that the change was metaphorical. An example would be the feminist movement of the sixties which is seen throu...
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