ESSAY
The poetry of Gwen Harwood, Hannah Roberts piece 'Sky High' from the 'changing' booklet and Ray Bradbury's novel 'Fahrenheit 451' all show people contemplating changes in themselves, and looking with a new awareness at their place in the world.
Time, trauma, death and discovery are all aspects of the dynamic process of changing self that we can effectively recognise in each of these texts.
Time is a major factor in changing people, and can be seen at work in Harwood's poem 'Father and Child' where the changes wrought by forty years or so.
In this poem, Harwood explores the changing…
