Comparing Catrin, the Affiction of Margaret, Digging

In both Catrin and The affliction of Margaret, both poets talk about their child who is either ever-changing or has left them. The main difference however is that The affection of Maraget is a narrative while Catrin is written as a commencement per male child perceptive. some(prenominal) poems use the metaphors of chains or ropes to symbolise the relationship between the bring and the child. In Catrin the red rope is utilize to symbolise the drive and childs linkup. It could mean that rope itself represents their love, and how both Catrin and the have are spiritually tied by their love.Or the rope could literally mean the umbilical cord which is physically connecting Catrin to her make at birth, 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 dumbfound the colour red could represents the love between 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 fight for power. loss is also a warning colour, it could be warning about changes in their relationship, showing that there might be more trouble in the future. as yet in contrast the chains in The affliction of Margaret symbolise the opposite of the rope in Catrin. It represents the separation between the mother and her countersign. We can see that mother in poem is feeling a great amount of grief and pain. We can split that she is in this pain when she says thou, worse to me than dead. This phase emphasis the mother grief, this shows 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 tidings, you can tell this by the repetition of the possessive pronoun my, which normal followed up by son. The repetition of the my emphasise the bond the mother and son have also it could should that mother feels that it is her job alone 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 very different meanings. They are random statements with no connection between them except, the loss of her son.It looks alike the mother has written the first thing that has come to her head. Because there is hardly connection between the paragraphs, it shows she is rapidly thinking of particular that might have happened to her son, which highlighting the grief that she feels. In contrast, Catrin is much more ordered than The affliction of Margaret. It has two segmentations the first section is the birth of Catrin and second section is an event in Catrin childhood when she wants to skate for an hour more. The ordered structure of poem could symbolise the hospital, a clean and ordered place.It could also symbolise the mothers co nstraint everyplace 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 older that line length in the paragraph starts to vary 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 necessitous from the family tradition of being a potato farmer.While On my first sonne another 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 simple, colloquial diction through-out digging, to emphasise how easy his father did his job. By God, the old mankind could handle a spade. This quotation doesnt only show how simple his father found his job, that also show how the poet aspire to be as tal ented as his father. The phase By graven image, 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 good 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 difficult to complex vocabulary. Also religious diction is used such hope and joy. The main why these religious word are used, is to fit in with key theme that god has taken his son way from him.However these words are also used to describe what emotions boy 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 used to symbolise the life of Ben Jonson Jr, it was ve ry short.In the title, the word Sonne is used, this word sound like the word sonnet, 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 done something wrong to the other family member(s). The poet in On first Sonne feels that he has love his boy too much, refers to his love as a sinne. This show that the poet trying 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 broken 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 digging. We see in all these poems that there are closes bonds betwe en the parents and children, we also that separation or disagreement in these relationships can cause confliction and grief between the parents and the children.