Judith Wright Is An Environmentalist

Judith Wright is an environmentalist!

In Judith Wright’s poems, the theme of nature consistently arises. She puts forward her thoughts of the destructions of native lands through poems including “Sanctuary”, also of the uniqueness of the environment itself with poems like “The Surfer”. I believe Judith Wright is an environmentalist because of the points she gives relating to the thoughtlessness of the human seek for technology.

In Judith Wright’s poem “Sanctuary”, she describes and area of habitation as a sanctuary. She uses the heading as an ironic meaning to make a point on the thoughtlessness of the human endeavour. This “sanctuary” which by definition states “A place which is safe”, has a road passing through leading to a city which stops for nothing in its way “The road beneath the giant oak trees sweeps on and cannot wait……but has no time to pray” Judith Wright uses this road as a metaphor to stand for the animate, inconsistent, and brutal fo...