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The speaker in the poem “Follower” is the Son, who admires and idolizes his father. The poem commences with the description of the father who ploughed with a horse, with his muscular shoulders that resembled a sail in full bloom. The initial impression is of a sizable machine under the control of an immensely strong […]

Seamus Heany expresses his ideas and attitudes towards various subjects in his poetry through creative and innovative methods. His poems cover a wide range of themes such as his personal childhood experiences, admiration towards his father, life on a farm and child’s perspective on life and death. He is acclaimed for his unique approach to […]

Many of Robert Browning’s early poems were part of what Isobel Armstrong has called a “systematic attempt to examine many kinds of neurotic or insane behavior, and in particular the pathology of sexual feeling” (Armstrong 288). Paired with a companion poem, “Johannes Agricola,” under the title Madhouse Cells, “Porphyria’s Lover”(1836) is one of the earliest […]

Poetic techniques allow experience to be represented in an intense and compressed way. The poem “The Grauballe Man”, from one of Seamus Heaney’s collection called New Selected Poems, contains many similes and metaphors that represents Heaney’s experience in a powerful and condensed way when he first looked upon a corpse known as ‘The Grauballe Man’. […]

Many poems have been written about death due to its controversial and curious nature surrounding what occurs after one’s departure from this life. The theme of death is explored in three poems that I am currently analyzing. Seamus Heaney’s ‘Mid-Term Break’, Patrick Kavanagh’s ‘In Memory of my Mother’, and Emily Dickinson’s untitled poem each present […]

In this piece of coursework I will be looking at the two poems; The Laboratory by Robert Browning and Havisham by Carol Ann Duffy. I will be looking at how the poets convey the extreme reactions of the woman in the poems that have been hurt by men. I will tackle the question by looking […]

The title ”Follower ” intrigues curiosity for what the poem is about, and what is doing the following. This poem, the  ” Follower ”, is about the writer looking up to his father whilst he ploughs some land, and how the roles have changed. The title ‘ Digging ‘ is quite plain, and unusual for […]

Both My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover are dramatic monologues written by Robert Browning. Write a comparison between them showing how typical they are of the dramatic monologue form. Include some reference to the form and language of each poem as well as your personal response.A dramatic monologue is a narrative spoken or thought by […]

‘Digging’ and ‘He was’ both examine father-son relationships with a sense of pride and admiration. However, both poems can also be read as an exploration and a challenge to what is considered to be “art”. Throughout the two poems there are repeated references to the artistry of poetry and working in the field. The essay […]

The writer of both of the poems is Robert Browning. They were written in the 19th century and as such there are many differences and similarities within the poems, of which some can be easily seen such as death, love and the idealisation of woman. The death of the last duchess can be seen as […]

Terence Rattigan’s play “The Browning Version” is a modern interpretation of Greek tragedy, ‘Agamemnon’, written by Aeschylus. Agamemnon is married to Clytemenstra and she is having an affair with another man . Agamemnon is murdered by his wife, aided by her lover. This is plot in the ‘Agamemnon’ is similar to “The Browining Version” because […]

Seamus Heaney authored both of the poems I examined, both of which address death, albeit in distinct ways. Two emotional poems, one set in the countryside, the other in the city, explore death’s impact. “The Early Purges” shows a clearing out of life in the country with kittens as innocent victims, while the other poem […]

In the poem ‘The Early Purges’ by Seamus Heaney, the literal meaning of it is the poet is tracing his history to his attitude towards killing the animals on the farm: from the past as a child, to now as an adult. The poet’s attitude changes as time went on, i. e. as he gets […]

The poem out-out was written by roger frost. It’s about a young boy who loses his hand while using a buzz saw; unfortunately, he also loses his life. Seamus Heaney wrote mid-term break, this poem is also about a young boy who loses his life, but this death was caused by a car accident, he […]

‘Mid-term break was written by Seamus Heaney , a poet born in 1939 in County Derry, in Ireland. The poem is about the death of Heaney’s younger brother who is unnamed.’Funeral blues’ was written by Wystan Hugh Auden, also a poet. Auden was born in 1907 in York, in England. The poem is about the […]

Tony Harrison, the author and son, appears to have written this poem about his parents, and his relationship with them. This poem appears to be recalling moments of family unity-moments of both sadness and happiness.The son appears to be sat at a desk, perhaps at an office or study at their family home. A double […]

Robert Browning’s poems ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and ‘My Last Duchess’ are both written in the form of dramatic monologues. This is when one speaker tells the poem to either a real audience or an implied audience. This means the poem is from one perspective and shows how the men want to mould the women into their […]

In my own opinion I think that ‘The Horses’ is trying to tell us that there has been a war between technology and the natural resources, but all of the technology has been wiped out. It tells us this in the second line ‘The seven day war that put the world to sleep’. ‘The tractors […]

Heaney, born 1939 was one of the nine children of Margaret and Patrick Heaney who ran a family farm in Mossbawn, Northern Ireland. Heaney enrolled at Queen’s College in 1957 after attending his local town school and opting not to follow in his fathers success of being a farmer. He took up a position as […]

The four poems that I am going to compare all have some things in common and some things that are very different. For example, the people in the poem all feel some kind of jealousy for somebody else, but in all four poems this jealousy is portrayed in different ways. In the poem “The Laboratory” […]

Of the poems that I have studied I have chosen “My Last Duchess”, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” and “Porphria’s Lover”. The poems are similar in many ways but also have some differences. The poem Porphria’s Lover was published in 1836 and is based on a criminal who murders Porphyria so that he can be […]

Throughout this assignment I will be examining how Seamus Heaney’s attitude towards childhood is portrayed throughout his poetry. I will initially be looking at individual poems, then drawing a collective conclusion of his overall childhood impressions. The poem Follower shows that the child’s view of farming is that of imitating his father’s actions:’I wanted to […]