Wendy Rose poems and autobiography were great pleasure to read. Her life speakes volumes in her poems, especially her motavations for writing them. I especially see this in her poems Truganinny and Julia. two different people, seen as outcast of society, and not truly see as people at all but things to examine in order to exercise human beings curiosity and hunger for profit.
Wendy has also felt like an out cast, calling herself a halfbreed. Also like the two poem the women voice were not hear and so she felt in hers. Here poems are a way to give a voice to the silent, to protest against the morphing human being into animals that neither have the right to choose or live. Her poems in power these women story and bring them figuratively back from the silence of death. Therefore giving life to here own voice and giving it power to be heard.
I am glad that you enjoyed reading Rose's work. I love your idea that her poems function as a form of protest for those without voices, and that by giving a voice to the individuals she writes about she also gives voice to herself.
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