An Analysis of Woman To Man The 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 is composed of uniform sections, or stanzas. The form is more constrained than that of a novel, flowing 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. The knowledge that Judith Wright is a well-known poet strengthens the evidence that it is a poem. This text has more than one intended audience. The primary audience is Judith Wright's husband. It is a well-known fact (in literary circles) that Wright addressed this poem to her husband when 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 better"; "...your arm..."; "...my breasts...". The second audience addressed 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. There are no names given to woman and man in the world of poetry. The experience of 'Woman' becomes the experience of 'every woman'. The third audience of this text is the literati, the world of literature. Judith Wright is a well-known Australian poet; this poem has been published many times; this poem obviously did not remain between Wright and her husband. The poem shows the poet's highly technical and sophisticated control over language: This skill has been analyzed...... middle of paper...... birth. The tone of "Woman To Man" is serious and shifts from contented to alt. Fear. For starters, Wright calmly pours his emotions onto the page. She contemplates her unborn child, joyfully sharing her experience with her husband: "...and yet you and I knew it well...". Her joy shows in the beautiful images she uses to describe her little girl: "...the intricate, folded rose...". It is only in the final stanza that his joy and contentment turn to fear. She begins to imagine the intense pain of labor and becomes frightened: “…the flash of light along the blade / Oh hold me for I am afraid.” The conclusion of the poem is dramatically appropriate. The change in tone from peaceful contentment to fear is completely natural, since the Woman (the poet) passes from the state of pregnancy, which she has known for nine months, to the first stages of labor, which frightens her..