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Compare and contrast how each of the three poets deals with the problem of separation from the person that they love.
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Compare and contrast how each of the three poets deals with the problem of separation from the person that they love. Introduction In recent weeks in English we studied 3 poems of varying origin and of various types of poetry. We studied Havisham, by Carol Ann Duffy, Stop all the clocks by W.H. Auden and Valediction: Forbidden mourning by John Donne. All of which are about the loss of loved ones, but in a different way. In 'Havisham', the bride (Miss Havisham) was left at the altar by her to-be-husband; she has sat in her dressing room in her wedding dress for year after year since that day. In 'stop all the clocks...' someone has lost a loved one, they have died. The poem is about what the person expects to happen when something so big happens in life and everyone else just carries on like it's another day. 'Valediction: Forbidden...
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