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Out in the Garden

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Price:
$15.00
Composer:
Bowater, Helen
Instrumentation:
voice and piano
Year composed:
2021
Duration:
c. 2:00
Format:
A4, pp7, digital download (PDF)
 
Description:
This 1917 poem may well allude to the garden surrounding Chesney Wold, Karori, where Mansfield’s family lived from 1893 to 1898, and reflect the nostalgia she felt for these happiest times of her childhood. Her brother Leslie’s death during a grenade training drill in October 1915 profoundly affected her, and inspired writings drawn from her childhood experience, such as the short stories See-saw (1917) and Prelude (1915–18), the latter based on the family’s move to Karori. I also lived in this area as a child and immediately responded to the intensity, simplicity, implied mystery and sense of exultation on a swing anchored by a towering tree, see-sawing over hedges and flower-beds in ‘the windy, swinging dark.’
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