Comparing Catrin, the Affiction of Margaret, Digging

In both(prenominal) Catrin and The distress of Marg aret, both poets talk about their child who is either changing or has left them. The master(prenominal) difference however is that The affection of Maraget is a narrative while Catrin is written as a inaugural mortal perceptive. Both verses use the metaphors of chains or ropes to typify the relationship amongst the breed and the child. In Catrin the red rope is utilize to symbolise the m otherwise and childs connection. It could symbolize that rope itself arranges their love, and how both Catrin and the mother are spiritually tied by their love.Or the rope could literally mean the umbilical cord which is physically connecting Catrin to her mother at birth, at the etymon of the poem. In other sense the rope could be used invent the conflict for power amidst Catrin and her mother, it could upliftn as a Tug of fight rope. The boy red used in this in this metaphor is enigmatical because the colour red could represent s the love between Catrin and her mother that is still in that location even though Catrin grown up or it could alike represent the anger and frustration between Catrin and her mother for the fight for power.Red is also a warning colour, it could be warning about changes in their relationship, display that there force be more than trouble in the future. up to now in contrast the chains in The affliction of Margaret symbolise the inverse of the rope in Catrin. It represents the breakup between the mother and her parole. We can condition that mother in poem is feeling a capital list of grief and pain. We can tell that she is in this pain when she says thou, worse to me than dead. This course emphasis the mother grief, this press outs that mother is in a lot pain, and that she feels excluded from the humanity around her.Through-out the poem you can that tell that mother has a great affection for her countersign, you can tell this by the repetition of the possessive pro noun my, which practice 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 problem alone to face. The coordinate of The affliction of Margaret backs the point that she has in an unstable mind-set. There are 11 paragraphs with very(prenominal) different meanings. They are random statements with no connection between them except, the exit of her son.It looks like the mother has written the first thing that has come to her head. Because there is hardly connection between the paragraphs, it trys she is rapidly thinking of event that might have happened to her son, which highlighting the grief that she feels. In contrast, Catrin is ofttimes more consistent than The affliction of Margaret. It has two discussion 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 hour more. The ordered social structure of poem c ould 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 breeding the most when she is a baby. However we see in second paragraph, when Catrin is aged(a) that line space 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 individual panorama poem about the poet breaking free 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 naive, colloquial intelligenceing through-out take, to emphasise how easy his father did his job. By God, the old man could pull off a spade. This quotation doesnt onl y 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. in addition 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. to a fault religious diction is used such hope and joy. The main why these religious word are used, is to fit in with pigment theme that god has taken his son way from him.However these linguistic communication 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 very 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 to a fault 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 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.