Sorry, I should have asked my other question later.
As regards the Bogan I do hope stanzas one and two are ironical but by S3 it is becoming serious and the last two lines are very serious. It's obviously written out of personal pain. I know nothing about her life. I think it's about the conditioning of women and the lives they live as a result of that conditioning. That was especially true at the time the poem was written and in my own semi-rural New Zealand childhood it was still true.
Janet
[This message has been edited by Janet Kenny (edited November 20, 2008).]
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