In the Park by Gwen Hardwood

Harwood's "In the Park" explains the painful retreat of the unrecognized mother's role portrayed by society. The park creates a fun and relaxing environmental image with an isolated bench and a personal walk. However, Gwen Harwood's "in the park" Petratan's sonnet draws as a lonely and negative atmosphere that irritates the park. The destruction of the mother's identity is known by the symbol of time and this negative and pessimistic image. Frustration of mother's expectation for social maternity led to the destruction of her personal identity.

Gwen Hardwood gave them privileges to widely accept alienated groups like women and to voice them through poetry. Both Sonnets in the suburbs and the in the park are confined to childbirth and express the frustration of women placed in traditional women's roles (wife, owner, etc.). Gwen Harwood's poem was written in the 1950s when women's interest was not expressed. It is the responsibility of the woman to build a house for her husband, to maintain it, to bring up the family, and to make this obligation comfortable and pleasant. One characteristic of patriarchal society is that men have the majority of power, while women are alienated due to poor qualities such as so-called mental weakness . Poetry refers to problems such as childbirth and family life, loss of love, loss of personality.

Through "the park", Gwen Harwood not only expressed her idea of ​​her birth, but also conveyed her perceptions of self-change. Hardwood compares the maternity world with the world of living alone, by comparing effective language skills, especially juxtaposition, to what is the mother's life and what will happen in the end if it is not responsible for her life To the reader. Person 's fate. Actually, Mr. Harwood was over exaggerated. "They took advantage of me and ate," the mother talked in the wind, and showed readers the pressure of women in society and the loneliness in the world. If you think that you want to change your life and want to control yourself, you have to do it in your own way to satisfy your way of doing and satisfy your life There is no choice.