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The Perseption of Parent - Child Relationships In the Sonnets By George Eliot and Sir Walter Ralegh.  

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THE PERSEPTION OF PARENT/CHILD RELATIONSHIPS IN THE SONNETS BY GEORGE ELIOT AND SIR WALTER RALEGH. 'Brother and Sister' by George Eliot and 'Sir Walter Ralegh to his son' by Sir Walter Ralegh are both sonnets on the subject of Children and Parental Relationships. Despite one sonnet being written by a woman and the other by a man, their relationships with their children are very important to them. They are both Shakespearean sonnets, dealing with the aspects of age and experience. George Eliot is writing as a child and what their mother is saying to them, where as Sir Ralegh is writing as a father and what he is saying to his son. It is distinguished that George is writing as a child as her first line says her mother "stroked down my tippet and set my brother's frill " Therefore, this will have to be taken into account when comparing the two sonnets. Both...

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