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Judith Wright's poem Halfway presents readers with a brilliant portrait of humanity's struggle and search for spirituality, brushstroked with vivid imagery and framed with strong metaphorical subjects. It is Wright's effective use of words that forms an impressive depiction of a journey taken not only by one small tadpole, but by all mankind.

Remarkable not only because of the poem's unusual story – the unfortunate fate of an ice-trapped tadpole – it is made even more memorable by Wright's image-evoking descriptions throughout. In the first stanza, ‘He hung at arrest; displayed as it were glass' already introduces us to the tadpole's odd, darkly humorous state of affairs. Wright continues to illustrate the tadpole, revealing him as having a frog's head, hinder legs and budding hands. The ‘comic O of his mouth' and ‘gold rimmed eyes of lustrous glaze' effectively forms in the mind's eye a wide-eyed, wet-eyed creature, confused and desperate to reach a place of belonging.......

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