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Compare and contrast 'Woman Work' by Maya Angelou and 'Overheard in County Sligo' by Gillian Clarke and give your response to both poems. The 2 poems are both about women that in my view are from very different backgrounds but have a few things in common. The first poem I am going to express is 'Woman Work'. The title of the poem can be seen as a command as well as the use of bad grammar. I think this could be because I imagine the woman to be a large black maybe African woman and as I have seen their way of speaking is short and sharp. The first two lines of the poem are a rhyming couplet, such as: I've got the children to tend The clothes to mend The pace of the poem at this stage is quite fast. The rhyming couplet makes it this way. The first verse...

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