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Both “On my first Sonne” and “refugee mother and child” deal with the death of a child. Compare and contrast the 2 poems, exploring their themes and ideas, the poet’s use of language and your own reaction to them.
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Both "On my first Sonne" and "refugee mother and child" deal with the death of a child. Compare and contrast the 2 poems, exploring their themes and ideas, the poet's use of language and your own reaction to them. The Poems On My First Sonne Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; My sinne was too much hope of thee, lov'd boy, Seven yeeres tho'wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. O, could I loose all father, now. For why Will man lament the state he should envie? To have so soone scap'd worlds, and fleshes rage, And, if no other miserie, yet age? Rest in soft peace, and, ask'd, say here both lye BEN JONSON his best piece of poetrie. For whose sake, hence - forth, all his vowes be such. As what he loves may never like too much. Ben Jonson Refugee Mother and Child No Madonna...
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