Compare and contrast Death of a naturalist and Catrin :: English Literature

Compare and contrast Death of a naturalist and CatrinIn both poems, the writers reflect on childhood and change. Heaneylooks back on his childhood and the change he took while growing upwhere as Clarke is reflecting on childhood as an adult, a mother andhow she copes, and her views of having a child, and being in childbirth.In Heaneys poem, Death of a Naturalist, he is reflecting on hischildhood and the attitude he uses towards his childhood. The attitudehe has changes during the poem, at send-off, in the first stanza, helooks back fondly at his childhoodI would fill jampotfuls of the jellied specks to range on the windowsills at home (line11)But opera hat of all there was the sensitive thick tosh (line 8)This shows how much he likes nature and how much interest he has forit, how he even likes the thick, warm slobber. The style and voiceof this stanza is dexterous and childlike. We can tell it is childlike bythe way it is written, using long sentences and the repetition of thew ord and,Miss Walls would tell us how the daddy frog was called a bullfrogand how he croaked and how the mammy frog laid hundreds of little eggsand this was frogspawn (line 15)But in the assist stanza it changes, the flavour of the stanza is slighthappy it is serious and uses numerous negative phrasesThen one hot day when fields were rank (line 22)Right down the dam gross - tumesce frogs were cocked (line 27)And also fearful is the tone I knew that if I dipped my hand thespwan would clutch it (line33)He shows he now no longer likes nature I sickened, turned and ran(line31) that is the change.In Clarkes poem Catrin she has mixed feelings of her childthroughout In the glass tank clouded with feelings (line19).In the first stanza it is before she has wedded birth and she tells itas a fight our first fierce confrontation (line7) Representing thebirth.Red rope of love which we both fought over (line 8) This isobviously the umbilical cord.She does non look fondly upon bragging(a) b irth as she shows it as a fightOur struggle to become separate (line 16) Nor does she seem fond ofthe child subsequently it is born in the second stanza, she shows she is inbattle even though the birth has finishedNeither won nor lost the struggle (line 18)Tightening approximately my life (line26). But although she shows shedoesnt seem to like the child she loves it trailing love andCompare and contrast Death of a naturalist and Catrin English writingsCompare and contrast Death of a naturalist and CatrinIn both poems, the writers reflect on childhood and change. Heaneylooks back on his childhood and the change he took while growing upwhere as Clarke is reflecting on childhood as an adult, a mother andhow she copes, and her views of having a child, and being in childbirth.In Heaneys poem, Death of a Naturalist, he is reflecting on hischildhood and the attitude he uses towards his childhood. The attitudehe has changes during the poem, at first, in the first stanza, helooks back fondly at his childhoodI would fill jampotfuls of the jellied specks to range on the windowsills at home (line11)But best of all there was the warm thick slobber (line 8)This shows how much he likes nature and how much interest he has forit, how he even likes the thick, warm slobber. The style and voiceof this stanza is happy and childlike. We can tell it is childlike bythe way it is written, using long sentences and the repetition of theword and,Miss Walls would tell us how the daddy frog was called a bullfrogand how he croaked and how the mammy frog laid hundreds of little eggsand this was frogspawn (line 15)But in the second stanza it changes, the tone of the stanza is lesshappy it is serious and uses many negative phrasesThen one hot day when fields were rank (line 22)Right down the dam gross - bellied frogs were cocked (line 27)And also fearful is the tone I knew that if I dipped my hand thespwan would clutch it (line33)He shows he now no longer likes nature I sickened, turned and ran(line31) that is the change.In Clarkes poem Catrin she has mixed feelings of her childthroughout In the glass tank clouded with feelings (line19).In the first stanza it is before she has given birth and she tells itas a fight our first fierce confrontation (line7) Representing thebirth.Red rope of love which we both fought over (line 8) This isobviously the umbilical cord.She does not look fondly upon giving birth as she shows it as a fightOur struggle to become separate (line 16) Nor does she seem fond ofthe child after it is born in the second stanza, she shows she is inbattle even though the birth has finishedNeither won nor lost the struggle (line 18)Tightening about my life (line26). But although she shows shedoesnt seem to like the child she loves it trailing love and