How do "Gulliver" and "Wild Grapes" by Slessor shape one's understanding of the challenges of the human experience?

In
"Gulliver," the speaker talks about all the things that limit and confine him, that
keep him from experiences real freedom. He lists just some of the "ten thousand" small
"hairs" that entwine him and prevent him from moving around freely or doing just what
he likes:

Love, hunger, drunkenness, neuralgia,
debt,
Cold weather, hot weather, sleep and age
If I could only unloose their
spongy fingers,
I'd have a chance yet, slip through the cage.

All kinds of things limit us and challenge us. Emotions can tie us
to other people, hunger can weaken useven basic needs can restrict our actionsand our own bad
decisions or human weaknesses (like drunkenness) can adversely affect us; we can also be
affected by pain and disease and by the debts that we incur (either financial or otherwise).
Human experience is fraught with all kinds of limits, not the least of which is death itself, as
we see in "Wild Grapes." People, families, are "drowned in earth," while
another "dead girl" called Isabella...