Growth - An analysis into Gwen Harwood's Poetry.

Growth can only come about if we accept change.

Change is an ongoing process. Throughout our lives we change from fresh, uninitiated babies and children filled with wonder at the world around us, through to know-it-all teenagers, into adulthood and finally on to our inevitable demise.
I believe the statement “Growth can only come about if we accept change” is true, for many reasons. For, while change is an ongoing process, as unstoppable as our biological clocks, the accompanying growth and subsequent maturity will not eventuate if the change is not accepted.

This idea of stages of moral growth was first proposed by the Philosopher Kolberg, who put forward a theory of Stages of moral growth. Between these stages a change must occur. Change leads to the dispelling of naive preconceptions and notions and results in growth because an ideology or platform has been swept away, and new growth can now occur. However, some people cling to their naïve ideas so strongly that th...