Australian_Poets

Australian Poets The particular poem that I have decided to present today gave Wright’s second book its title and was admittedly written by Wright for her husband whilst she was pregnant with his child. The poem’s title ‘Woman to May’ has several connotations at first glance. Once could interpret it as a woman bestowing certain gifts to a man, specifically sexual favours. Or perhaps the title is a comp0arison or even a challenge between the sexes, on to interpreted more as ‘Woman vs. Man’. The title also leaves the poem open – it can be read and appreciated by any man or woman across the globe. I believe that Wright’s main purpose in writing the text was to express her feelings about the creation of her soon-to-be-born child. As her primary intended audience was her husband, Wright wishes to convey her feelings about the child they have created, while it grows ever-more inside of her. Her poem not only explores fertility and birth, but also speaks boldly and almost proudly of female sexuality, highlighting sex as a symbol of life. Wright wrote this piece during 1949, a time then such things as conception and pregnancy were not topics of public discussion. By writing such wright, poem, child, about, woman, title, creation, wright’s, woman, suggestive, piece, line, intimacy, husband, fear, –, ‘wild, ‘the, ‘our, wrote, written, writing, whilst, tree’, tree, time, text, stance, reader, purpose, present, pregnancy, post-war, once, number, metaphors, man’, man, life, life, interpreted, intended, imagery, hold, head, grows, first, final, feminist, feelings, exists