Harwood's 'Father and Child: Barn Owl' and Harkin's 'These Days I Think of Aunty Doreen'

What this note covers

1. Two Australian contexts of loss: settler domestic memory and First Nations dispossession
2. Harwood's 'Barn Owl': mid-century Australian poetry and the loss of innocence
3. Form and technique in 'Barn Owl': symbolism, biblical allusion and retrospective voice
4. Harkin's 'These Days I Think of Aunty Doreen': archival poetics and the Stolen Generations
5. Form and technique in Harkin: address, documentary language and the space of silence
6. Worked comparison: two registers of Australian loss in a single essay
7. How Question 1a examines this pairing and what separates a top response

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