I thought that the two poems written by Wendy Rose, Julia and Truganinny, were both well written and really drew the readers in. I also felt sorry for both the characters in the works. They are both similar in a sort, Julia is speaking after she is already dead from inside her display case while Truganinny is speaking to someone, perhpas the person in charge of her body once she passes, indicating that she does not want to be stuffedand preserved but either buried or thrown to the waves. I feel sorry because neither of them, try as they might, have any control over what is done with them. Julia is already dead so she is unable to change the way her husband exhibits her and Truganinny about to die and it seems that even if she asks, if her culture is to stuff the dead, she will invariably end up that way.
They are both different too though, Julia seems to wish that she were alive so that she could preserve her dignity and re-do some of her life. She wants to be able to communicate with her husband and to have him tell her it is only a dreamand that she will wake up to her lover, allowing her to be free. Truganinny is in the process of dying and it seems as though she has already made considerable peace with this fact, she wants to be taken back into the universe. The only thing holding her back seems to be her body and the worry that she will be stuffed like her husband and unable to be totally free.
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