Saturday 14 July 2012

How does the title of Judith Wright's poem,"Smalltown Dance," link to what it is about?

The content
of the poem uses the laundry dance as a . So while the title links to the laundry dance, that
link is only the pathway to the link to the greater idea for which the dance of folding sheets
is a metaphor.

That larger idea is that dreams and aspirations and the
ability to run free in a wider world "of green" opportunity is folded and put away in
exactly the same (metaphorical) way that sheets are folded and put away: as each girl there
grows up and learns to fold sheets, she also learns that there is no way for her to escape and
run out into the broader...

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