Creative writing
...f perspective, situations can be looked upon in new light and stronger moral integrity, achieved through various poetic techniques. In ‘David’s Harp’, a transition from past to present is met through the hymn and in the last Stanza there is evidence of a mature voice. The older persona has been ‘tried in time’s harsh fires’ and is ‘less ignorant of the nature and names of love’, showing her experience and maturity. The change of perspective is apparent through the change of the tenor admirer’s representation. As a young girl, the admirer was disregarded as old ‘thirty, if a day’ whilst the older persona sees him as a ‘bright young man’ and ‘handsome and young’ .The change of perspective is obvious in the value placed on the man, but may have been different if the man were not immortalised in memory having ‘died soon after’ the experience. This is one of the ways in which Gwen Harwood deals with death through memory. In memory poems, there is often a strong sense of nostalgia as it ...