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Compare the Poems ‘Babysitting’ and ‘Catrin’ with Particular Emphasis on How the Poet has Dealt with Adult-Child Relationships
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Compare the Poems 'Babysitting' and 'Catrin' with Particular Emphasis on How the Poet has Dealt with Adult-Child Relationships 'Catrin' and 'Baby-sitting' are both written by the poet Gillian Clarke. 'Catrin' is a poem with a much softer tone, represented in the long sentences and the calm atmosphere it creates when reflecting back in the past. In contrast 'Baby-sitting is a poem with a much more emotional feel to it, containing more than one topic: for example in 'Catrin' it was looking at her daughter in the past as a infant and then in the present as an older less needy child, however in 'Babysitting it is not only looking at her anxiety of the baby-sitting caring for a unknown baby but also from the perspective of the baby being left with no familiar figures surrounding it. 'Catrin' is a poem concerning the contrast between a baby's (daughter 'Catrin') dependency on her mother...
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