Poetry - Gwen Harwood, Bruce Dawe & Judith Wright

Question 1

MWGML
Tone:
Motif:

Answer 1

nostalgic, loving

linen (domesticity/grandeur v small)

Question 2

EWSMAK

Tone:

Answer 2

Tone: cynical, subtle satiric, flippant

Question 3

Moments Homo Quia Pulvis Es Genesis iii.19,

by…?

Answer 3

Gwen Harwood

Question 4

Drifters

By…?

Answer 4

Bruce Dawe

Question 5

Remittance Man

By…?

Answer 5

Judith Wright

Question 6

Woman to Man

By…?

Answer 6

Judith Wright

Question 7

Husband and Wife

By…?

Answer 7

Bruce Dawe

Question 8

The Violets

By…?

Answer 8

Gwen Harwood

Question 9

The Hawthorn Hedge

By…?

Answer 9

Judith Wright

Question 10

Enter Without so Much as Knocking

By..?

Answer 10

Bruce Dawe

Question 11

Mother Who Gave me Life

By…?

Answer 11

Green Harwood

Question 12

Woman to Child

By…?

Answer 12

Judith wright

Question 13

Homo Suburbiensis

By…?

Answer 13

Bruce Dawe

Question 14

Suburban Sonnet

By…?

Answer 14

Gwen Harwood

Question 15

WTC

structure:

Answer 15

4 stanzas
5 lines each
7-8 syllables per line

(1- conception, 2-early pregnancy, 3-later stages of pregnancy, 4-labour/birth)

Question 16

MWGML

structure:

Answer 16

elegy (loss of mother) 
Quatrain 9 stanzas
                4 lines per stanza 
                6-9 syllables per line 
-> challenges the traditional

Question 17

MHQPEG

structure:

Answer 17

3 stanzas
no line pattern

(1 - human - the minute
2 - elemental - the forces of nature
3 - cosmic - the epic grandeur of the universe)

Opens with rhyming couplet, rhyme disintegrates - symbolic of life’s lack of order.

Question 18

EWSMAK

structure:

Answer 18

8 stanzas, no rhyme/line length pattern etc

Question 19

SS

Tone:

Answer 19

dissatisfied, unhappy ………………..

Question 20

SS

Structure:

Answer 20

sonnet: 14 lines, one stanza

Question 21

HS

Tone:

Answer 21

celebratory………………..

Question 22

HS

Structure:

Answer 22

5 stanzas, about 3 lines each (except for final s)

SONNET

Question 23

D

Tone:

Answer 23

Resignation, somber, inevitability

Question 24

D

Structure:

Answer 24

Free- verse, two sentences (brevity)
1 - activity associated with current location - “will do”
2 - anticipation, and resignation to change “wont do”

Question 25

TV

Tone:

Answer 25

Melancholy, reflection, dialogue -> conversational

Question 26

TV

structure:

Answer 26

5 stanzas, irregular length and structure

indentation indicates memories

Question 27

THH

Tone:

Answer 27

Sympathetic, curious, respectful, delicate

Question 28

THH

structure:

Answer 28

6 stanzas of 4 lines each
enjambment
Half rhyme ABAB

Question 29

WTM

Structure:

Answer 29

4 stanzas of 5 lines

traditional verse style

Question 30

WTM

Tone:

Answer 30

intimate, personal, vulnerable

Question 31

H&W

Structure:

Answer 31

2 stanzas
Infrequent length
Some rhyming couplets

Question 32

H&W

Tone:

Answer 32

Loving, tender…….

Question 33

MHQPES

Tone:

Answer 33

Impending - death

imperative - negative

Question 34

RM

Tone:

Answer 34

joyous observation

celebratory

Question 35

RM

Structure:

Answer 35

Four stanzas, infrequent length and rhyme

1 - the man and the life he left behind
2 - contrast new/old world, vivid landscape description
3 - clues to the behaviour of the man, what led him to aus
4 - death of man, bro’s reaction (contrast - binary opposite)

Question 36

WTC

Tone:

Answer 36

joyful, ebullient, buoyant