Compare and contrast the way Seamus Heaney and D H Lawrence Essay
In this essay I shall be examining poems from two famous poets – Seamus Heaney and D. H Lawrence. Both write about their childhood experiences and express their feelings and memories through their p...
Compare Heaney’s presentation of his father in ‘Digging’ and the ‘Follower’ Essay
The two poems ‘Digging’ and ‘Follower’ are very similar. As evidence both poems refer to the earth and the different job that are related with the earth. ‘Digging’ is about Heaney digging ...
Compare the predicament of women in society as described in Cousin Kate and The Seduction Essay
‘The Seduction’ and ‘Cousin Kate’ are similarly concerned with the predicament of women in society. They are both poems which end up in a negative position, and are following the trails of a y...
Love is portrayed as a strong emotion in both an optimistic and pessimistic way in nearly all pre-1914 love poetry. When love is presented as pessimistic, for example Keats’ ‘La Belle Dame Sans Me...
The main similarity about ‘Digging’ and ‘At a Potato Digging’ is that they are obviously, both about digging. But ‘Digging’ is about the writer’s memories of his ‘old man’ and how we...
The poems I have chosen to analyse are written from a male and a female perspectives in the 18th and 19th centuries. All the poems describe the aspects of love and loss. Each poet is influenced by sad...
Compare the ways poets have written about love, bringing out different aspects of the theme Essay
There are endless ways in which love can be portrayed and occur. There are numerous types of love, whether it physical, emotional or romantic love. I intend to expand upon and highlight the various wa...
‘Cousin Kate’ was Set and written in the mid 1800s and set in rural England. ‘The Seduction’ was written in 1985 for the Young Observer poetry competition, which it won first prize. It was wri...
Comparing Cultures and Traditions in Poetry Essay
The two poems “Search for my tongue” and “Not my business” are both written by poets from very different backgrounds and cultures, looking to get their point across. Bhatt emphasises in his po...
Comparison of The Seduction and To His Coy Mistress Essay
The first poem I will discuss is The Seduction. The poem is about a boy (typical lad, leather jacket, alcohol, drugs and bad manners) taking a girl from a party and taking her down to the lakeside. Wh...