Judith Wright’s Poetry: A Case for Redefining Sensibility

Abstract

White settlers had developed a variety of attitudes towards the aborigines. Many a time, they felt threatened by the aborigines; on other occasions, their behaviour reflected a violent prejudice against them, looking down upon them as an inferior race whose land they had rightfully snatched from the original inhabitants of the land. The white settlers in Australia did not feel at home for the reason that the new country did not accord much importance to Christianity or the broader European culture. ‘Eventually many white poets came to envy the blacks [for] their ‘inwardness’ with the country’ (O’ Connor 31).