It is easily adaptable. When her mother crumples under the pressure of life, she is able to smooth out her appearance to put on a good face in front of her daughter, and Gwen is especially grateful for that. Although she is sick, she is still remaining useful, still folding towels. .
a lamp on embroidered linen', embroidered by her mother. The house is representative of her mother; it shows her hard work and her care for the family is echoed through her care for the linen.
Gwen Harwood wrote this poem as a love poem for her mother, she compared her to one of our greatest of materials, linen and showed how her mothers care for the tidiness of the house taught her how to be tidy with her own feelings and emotions.
What Changes of the self does the text deal with?.
The line wild young daughters becoming women' implies the how people change when they bear the responsibilities of motherhood.
An adult realising her irresponsibility as a child and the many lessons she failed to learn; Forgive me the wisdom I would not learn from you.
Gaining greater awareness of her mother's value and appreciating, after her mother has died, how important her mother was to her. This does not mean that she did not appreciate her mother when she was alive, but death is a catalyst to ponder on the worth of that person.
The changing relationship between mother and daughter. As the persona sees her dying mother smiling to hide tears she instinctively remembers childhood and a common domestic scene of her mother calling the daughter in as darkness falls.
What is you response to the text and it's ideas?.
This poem is written in appreciation to the writer's mother. It is more an expression of love than it is about change.
What has it added to your understanding of change?.
Assuming responsibilities causes change.
External catalyst can cause internal realisations.
Father and Child.
What Changes of the self does the text deal with?.
