Comparing Catrin, the Affiction of Margaret, Digging

In both Catrin and The melancholy of Marg bet, both poets talk or so their kid who is either changing or has left them. The main difference even is that The affection of Maraget is a narrative while Catrin is written as a kickoff person perceptive. twain poems engagement the metaphors of chains or circuits to defend the relationship among the stick and the child. In Catrin the red rope is use to symbolise the set about and childs companionship. It could mean that rope itself represents their whap, and how both Catrin and the get are spiritually tied by their love.Or the rope could literally mean the umbilical cord which is physically connecting Catrin to her m some other at parturition, at the beginning of the poem. In other sense the rope could be used represent the conflict for power between Catrin and her mother, it could seen as a Tug of war rope. The word red used in this in this metaphor is ambiguous be display case the colour red could represents the love betwe en Catrin and her mother that is still there even though Catrin grown up or it could also represent the anger and frustration between Catrin and her mother for the turn on for power.Red is also a warning colour, it could be warning about changes in their relationship, demonstrate that there might be more disconcert in the future. However in seam the chains in The affliction of Margaret symbolise the opposite of the rope in Catrin. It represents the separation between the mother and her son. We can see that mother in poem is feeling a great amount of grief and torment. We can tell that she is in this pain when she says thou, worse to me than dead. This phase emphasis the mother grief, this displays that mother is in a lot pain, and that she feels excluded from the world around her.Through-out the poem you can that tell that mother has a great affection for her son, you can tell this by the repeat of the possessive pronoun my, which normal followed up by son. The repetition of the my emphasise the shackle the mother and son have also it could should that mother feels that it is her problem alone(predicate) to face. The structure of The affliction of Margaret backs the point that she has in an unstable mind-set. There are 11 paragraphs with real different meanings. They are random statements with no connection between them except, the loss of her son.It looks akin the mother has written the first social function that has come to her head. Because there is hardly connection between the paragraphs, it shows she is rapidly mentation of event that might have happened to her son, which highlighting the grief that she feels. In contrast, Catrin is practically more arranged than The affliction of Margaret. It has two sections the first section is the birth of Catrin and second section is an event in Catrin childhood when she wants to skate for an minute more. The ordered structure of poem could symbolise the hospital, a clean and ordered place.It could also symbolise the mothers control over Catrin. In this poem Catrins mum has a lot of authority in Catrins life the most when she is a baby. However we see in second paragraph, when Catrin is overageder that line length in the paragraph starts to variegate more and the structure is more irregular. This could represent the control over Catrin depleting, showing that Catrin is getting more power in their relationship. Digging is a first person perspective poem about the poet breaking free from the family usage of being a potato farmer.While On my first sonne another(prenominal) first person perspective poem which is about the poet grieving over his death son. I both of these poems the poet has great admiration for their relatives In Digging, Seamus Heaney use unbiased, colloquial diction through-out digging, to emphasise how easy his father did his job. By God, the old man could handle a spade. This quotation doesnt besides show how simple his father found his job, but also show how the poet aspire to be as talented as his father. The phase By god, is used to describe his describe the talent that his father has he compares his talent to god.Also like in The affliction of Margaret, there is a repetition of the word my, it show that father and son have full(a) relationship it also emphasise son admiration for his father. Ben Jonson also uses simple diction in On my first Sonne to emphases the poet grief of losing his son. If youre grieving, it is uncontrollable to complex vocabulary. Also religious diction is used such commit and joy. The main why these religious word are used, is to adapted in with key theme that god has taken his son sort from him.However these words are also used to describe what emotions male child gave him this show much the poet admired and loved the boy, to give him these emotions linked to god The structure of On my first Sonne is very short it is only 14 lines long, the reason for this, is because the length of the poem is us ed to symbolise the life of Ben Jonson Jr, it was very short.In the title, the word Sonne is used, this word sound like the word praise, which a poem with15 lines, this poem has 14 line, so it is incomplete sonnet, like the poets sons life, it incomplete, lso Sonne has one letter missing to Sonnet, this is other way the poet show how incomplete his sons life was. Both in On first Sonne and Digging both feel that they make something wrong to the other family member(s). The poet in On first Sonne feels that he has love his boy in like manner much, refers to his love as a sinne. This show that the poet arduous to explain his pain, he say constantly through-out the poem, that it is sin to love too much.The poet in digging feels that he has low the family tradition, but in contrast to On first Sonne, there is an acceptance The squat pen rests. Ill dig with it This show the poet is proud of his choice of becoming poet, and says that hasnt broken the tradition, because his is still di gging. We see in all these poems that there are closes bonds between the parents and children, we also that separation or disagreement in these relationships can cause confliction and grief between the parents and the children.