Being ‘at home’ means to feel at ease, to feel comfortable, to feel loved within the company of a select few. It is here within this familiar environment where one is able to feel safe and protected. However, within this closed environment, an illusion of reality is formed. It is one where everything is seen to be positive. Once an individual escapes from this illusion and are exposed to reality are they able to mature. Such is the case for Lewis, the main protagonist within Louis Nowra’s play “Cosi” as well as the personas within the poems “Father and Child” and ”The Glass Jar” written by Gwen Harwood.
Barn Owl tells of a child whose curiosity gets the better of her. She shoots an owl out of interest, only to discover the brutality of death. “A lonely child who believed death clean and final, not this obscene bundle of stuff that dropped”. Dialogue in the poem is when her father tells her “End what you have begun”. This line emphasises that the girl is forced to take responsibility for her actions, a sign of her development.
Nightfall begins forty years after that incident. The persona is no longer “a child once quick to mischief” but a responsible adult who has “grown to learn what sorrows … no tears can mend”. The poem uses a consistent …show more content…
Because of this he develops feelings for his mother which he describes as his “most secret hate”. The persona believes that he can place his hope into a “pulse of light”, a part of the Sun which he has deified. The boy wakes up from his nightmares only to realise that his light is gone. It is then when his “hope fell headlong from its eagle height” and his loss of innocence begins. He walks into his parent’s room while they are making love and he takes this as a sign of his mother’s betrayal. He goes to sleep and “waking screamed fresh morning to his window-sill”. This goes to show that all is not right in the world, as discovered by the
Barn Owl tells of a child whose curiosity gets the better of her. She shoots an owl out of interest, only to discover the brutality of death. “A lonely child who believed death clean and final, not this obscene bundle of stuff that dropped”. Dialogue in the poem is when her father tells her “End what you have begun”. This line emphasises that the girl is forced to take responsibility for her actions, a sign of her development.
Nightfall begins forty years after that incident. The persona is no longer “a child once quick to mischief” but a responsible adult who has “grown to learn what sorrows … no tears can mend”. The poem uses a consistent …show more content…
Because of this he develops feelings for his mother which he describes as his “most secret hate”. The persona believes that he can place his hope into a “pulse of light”, a part of the Sun which he has deified. The boy wakes up from his nightmares only to realise that his light is gone. It is then when his “hope fell headlong from its eagle height” and his loss of innocence begins. He walks into his parent’s room while they are making love and he takes this as a sign of his mother’s betrayal. He goes to sleep and “waking screamed fresh morning to his window-sill”. This goes to show that all is not right in the world, as discovered by the