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R.S Thomas ‘Treatment of the Theme Of Old Age In His Poems ‘Lore’ And ‘An Old Man’ R.S Thomas was an Anglican minister who was
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R.S Thomas 'Treatment of the Theme Of Old Age In His Poems 'Lore' And 'An Old Man' R.S Thomas was an Anglican minister who was born in 1913 and died in 1965. He ministered in remote parishes in the welsh hillsides amongst hill farmers. The bleak Welsh landscape and the harsh life of the farmers who were his parishioners provided an inspiration for much of his finest poetry. R.S Thomas taught himself the Welsh language in order to understand the hill farmers. Much of his poetry describes their lives in an unsentimental but he does show compassion and understanding for the hard working individuals and the harshness of the conditions they had to endure. Throughout these two poems there are a lot of similarities. The main similarity is that the two poems are both about old men who have had a tough and hard life. Another similarity is that they are...
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