An Analysis of Woman to ManThe form of this text is a poem. The visual appearance of the text on the page tells us that it is a poem: it is positioned in the center of the page and it is made up of uniform sections, or stanzas. The form is more constrained than that of a novel, which runs freely across the page from left to right. The text also uses formal poetic features, such as: multiple stanzas containing an equal number of lines; line breaks between stanzas; and a regular number of beats per line. Knowing that Judith Wright is a well-known poet adds to the evidence that this is a poem. This text is aimed at more than one target audience. The main audience is Judith Wright's husband. It is a well-known fact (in literary circles) that Wright addressed this poem to her husband while she was pregnant with one of their children. The intimate nature of this exchange between Wright and her husband is evident in her use of personal pronouns: “…you and I knew him well”; "...your arm..."; “…my breast…”. The second target audience is every woman and every man, as an expression of something from every woman to every man. The title Woman To Man makes the poem universal, more than just a poem from Judith Wright to her husband. No names are given to the woman and the man in the world of the poem. The experience of “the Woman” becomes the experience of “every woman”. The third audience of this text is that of scholars – the world of literature. Judith Wright is a well-known Australian poet; this poem has been published several times; this poem obviously did not stay between Wright and her husband. The poem shows the poet's highly technical and sophisticated control over language: this skill was analyzed... middle of paper... at birth. The tone of “Woman To Man” is serious and shifts from contentment to birth. fear. To begin, Wright calmly pours his emotions onto the page. She contemplates her unborn child, joyfully sharing her experience with her husband: “…yet, you and I knew him well…”. Her joy is reflected in the beautiful images she uses to describe her child: “…the intricate, folded rose…”. Only in the final stanza does his joy and contentment turn to fear. She begins to imagine the intense pain of the labor and she becomes frightened: “…the flash of light along the blade / O hold me for I am afraid.” The conclusion of the poem is dramatically appropriate. The change in tone from peaceful contentment to fear is only natural, as the Woman (the poet) moves from the state of pregnancy she has known for nine months to the early stages of labor, which frightens her..