Context - An Easy Passage

• The poem 'An Easy Passage' was written by Julia Copus
• The poem 'An Easy Passage' may draw on Julia Copus' own experiences coming of age in the 1980's, through the use of the semantic field of 1980's paraphernalia
• In the poem 'An Easy Passage' draws on the speaker's nostalgia for the vibrancy and freedom of adolescence is also markedly modern, as is the depiction of adulthood
• The poem 'An Easy Passage' could implicitly be critical of a Capitalist Consumer Society, as the juxtaposition between the glowing teenage girls and the dull lives of adults working in factories and offices seems to imply that these factories and offices somehow diminish people and rob them of an essential sense of excitement for life