English Assessment - Scrapbook 'CHANGING SELF'

English Assessment - Scrapbook 'CHANGING SELF' TEXT 1 - 'Father and Child' by Gwen Harwood (Poem) Gwen Harwood is the author of the poem 'Father and Child'. Told in first person, this poem is about a rebellious child that experiments with the constraints of authority, which leads to an important discovery in her life. The father in the poem struggles to obtain the position of power and is somewhat blind to his daughter's real personality. We …

…there'll be a draught", Holub is saying that if you open the door and take the risk, you are guaranteed an experience and a change of self. He also says in the line "if there is a fog it will clear" that even if you don't notice the change immediately, it will become clearer with time. Holub's simple message is that through experiences we change and in this case, lose our innocence by doing so.