To Another Housewife
In Judith Wright's poem, "To Another Housewife", change occurs as the fundamental motif. The composer has harnessed a variety of language techniques to promote these changes. "To Another Housewife" is a dramatic monologue that talks about the changes in the values and responsibilities of a girl as she matures into adulthood. Judith Wright has written this to highlight the fact that many people are in this situation.
<Tab/>Wright uses contrast and juxtaposition to outline this change in values when the girl who had at one time despised seeing death ("with tomahawk and knife we hacked/ at flyblown tatters of old meat") has come to associate with it daily ("these hands with love and blood imbrued"). …
