Gwen Harwood is a poet well known for her poems written in the 1950s and 1990s as she explores the realm of universal human concerns that are the source of her poetic inspiration, including: love, friendship and memory. Today, these concerns are still relevant in our society and are what connect us to each other and immortalize our spirit. Through many of Harwood's poems, she exposes her life in writing to create an intimate relationship with paper. These documents create a personal narrative of the struggles and love a woman feels at certain moments in changing times. This becomes evident in Harwood's interpretation of marriage, motherhood, and love. She uses symbolism and tone to allude to the poems' enduring meaning and their importance to her. Harwood uses poetry to document her experiences and observations about marriage. She opens her life to the reader by sharing personal and intimate reflections on her life choices. Through this, Harwood is able to recreate a vivid picture of the life of a married woman in the 1940s. Gwen Harwood married in 1945 and moved with her husband, William Harwood, to Tasmania and away from home beloved childhood in Brisbane. This change in Harwood's life has been a struggle as she has not completely accepted this decision which will always be viewed negatively. Harwood's struggle to accept her new life was evident in her poem "Iris." In the poem, Harwood examines the positive and negative aspects of a marital relationship. Harwood uses the word “…singularity…” to describe her relationship, this word emphasizes that she and her husband have become a unit in which they go through life and experience good and bad together. As well as having a positive co... middle of paper ...... expressed as in "An impromptu for Ann Jennings". In this poem, Harwood recalls the times she and a friend experienced during motherhood. She speaks of beautiful memories: “Nursing…by immense acacia fires…” and ends the poem with “knowing; our children roam the earth. This line is very powerful in that it expresses Harwood's joy and gratitude for having children and having a friend to help him along the way. This line anchors itself in its audience because its great structural strength opens a window in which certain women or mothers can identify and share an indisputable connection with Harwood's poems. Through a collection of poems by Gwen Harwood, the exploration of women during the 1950s and 1990s and their roles in society as it evolved in its acceptance of allowing a woman to express herself on an equal footing equality on his identity. (I'm having trouble finishing this essay)