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English coursework Comparing and contrasting two poems from a different culture By Stuart Hamilton Final draft The first thing we notice about "At a potato digging" is that it is set on a farm. This applies to both the poems and we find that they both use normal farm activities to portray much larger events in Ireland's history. In "At a potato digging" it uses a potato digging to contrast against an earlier time in history which was the potato famine, whereas "A difficult birth, Easter 1998" uses the birth of a lamb which is then connected to the birth of the Irish peace conference. In the first verse of "At a potato digging" we are given a description of were the poem is set, which is a farm where the workers are following the mechanical digger as it pulls up the potatoes. The workers are said to "swarm" behind the digger, which suggests...

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