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…showed last 75 words of 1943 total…as a duty. Gwen Harwood addresses issues such as motherhood and domestic life, lost love and loss of individuality in these poems. Many poetic techniques have been employed to put forward these issues to the reader and to create urgency about the moment. These include, the sonnet form, phrase length and language. Suburban Sonnet and In the Park by Gwen Harwood act politically by significantly privileging the experiences and express the concerns of women.