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Echoes of Self: Unravelling Identity Through Judith Wright’s Natural Metaphors

Author(s) Ms. Shilpi Chowdhary, Prof. Shiv Govind Puri
Country India
Abstract This paper investigates identity metaphors in Judith Wright's poems, illustrating how environmental imagery articulates the tension between the settler identity and indigenous dispossession. She employs metaphors to explore nature’s interconnectedness and human fragility transforming the abstract concepts into sensory experiences rooted in Australian Landscape. It explains the complex interaction of the inner self of an individual with the external environment like social roles, culture, and the power dynamics. Her poetry utilizes Psychoanalytic theory which examines, repeated symbolic ideas, early experiences, and the unconscious mind that influence’s identity of the person and it can be experienced in case of Judith Wright as well. Her poems like ‘The Moving Image,’ ‘Woman to Child,’ ‘Two Dreamtimes,’ and ‘Remittance Man,’ ‘Nameless Flower’ suggests how Wright's eco-poetic metaphors create an overlapping selfhood that challenges homogenous National narratives. Her poems are the reflection of establishing individual’s identity along with the cultural and National identity and the way it is framed, presented, and understood. She combines all the senses for complete impact, and her diverse approach strengthens her position in establishing an eco-poetic Australian voice and the reason being, that she draws upon Romanticism, capturing Wordsworth's nature-soul unison, but integrating Australian details with ancient wisdom. Finally, her art contributes to modern debates on identity, advocating for reconciliation with Australia's divided territory.
Keywords Australia, Judith Wright, Dispossession, Metaphors, Identity, Culture, Aboriginal, Environment, Psychoanalytic theory
Published In Volume 8, Issue 2, March-April 2026
Published On 2026-03-09
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i02.70967
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