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Wright Fights Rights
Summary: Wright not only wrote about nature, but she also fought to preserve it. She helped found Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland; fought to conserve the ecology of The Great Barrier Reef and she also campaigned against sand mining on Fraser Island. These concerns were reflected in many of her poems.
Judith Wright was born where the trees `grew blue-leaved and olive' in the `clean, lean, hungry country' Australia. (South of My Days poem)
Wright, born in 1915, grew up in a wealthy family and developed a love for poetry at the age of six, when she would write for her ailing mother. A common subject matter found throughout her poems is her love for nature. She also likes to express her feelings towards indigenous Australians. These two discourses are clearly revealed in her poems Bora Ring and The Surfer.
She `draws her ideas from nature rather than society and consistently returns to the idea of nature as a powerful force against the frail men'. This environmental discourse is explored in her poem The Surfer. She explains how `frail' men are in competition with nature and as the personification of the sea changes to a `grey wolf' the surfer will...
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