Gwen Harwood's "Father and Child" is a two part poem describing the self changes experienced through time within a father and his child.
In the first part of the poem, we witness a change in self a child as she experiences her first step towards adulthood. In "Barn Owl", a child at a rebellious age, experiments with the constraints of authority in an attempt to seek control for herself, as she sneaks out to kill a barn owl with her father's shotgun. However, this experimentation quickly awakens her to an importnat discovery in her life; the reality of suffering and d
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