Here is the question . They quoted the last stanza and then asked :
From The Violets, Gwen Harwood
In the context of your critical study, to what extent does your response to the closing stanza of The Violets inform your judgement of this poem and Harwood’s poetry as a whole?
In your response, make detailed reference to The Violets and at least ONE other poem set for study.
The prescribed poems are:
– Gwen Harwood, Selected Poems * Father and Child * The Violets * At Mornington
* A Valediction * Triste, Triste * The Sharpness of Death * Mother Who Gave me Life