In The Park Poem Analysis

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In the Poems Homo Suburbiensis by Bruce Dawe and In the park by Gwen Harwood both poets have represented this poem. In Homo Surbiensis Dawe talks about a man which is alone with his thoughts. The man also thinks of his vegetable patch as a small sanctuary. The man. In ‘In the Park’ Harwood tells readers about the story of a mother who is at the park with her children and encounters someone she once loved pass by. Both poems also use various techniques that include metaphor, sonnet, hyperbole and dialogue.

In the Poem Homo Surburensis, Dawe tells the story of a man that is alone with his thoughts and thinks of his vegetable patch as his sanctuary. The poem represents a man in a world of change. All he needs is his vegetable patch, where there

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