Compare "The Field Mouse" with one other post- 1914 poem and two pre-1914 poems of your choice that deal nature and the countryside. -Three poems suitable for this comparison would be Seamus Heaney's "Storm On The Island", Walt Whitmans
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... Compare "The Field Mouse" with one other post- 1914 poem and two pre-1914 poems of your choice that deal nature and the countryside. -Three poems suitable for this comparison would be Seamus Heaney's "Storm On The Island", Walt Whitmans "Patrolling Barnegat", and John Clairs "Sonnet" Gillian Clarke tells us on her website that the fighting referred to in the poem is the Bosnian conflict, but the poem itself does not specify which war inspired it. Why do you think this is? The poem describes hay making in Wales, one summer in the early 1990s. The war in Bosnia was going on at the time. When a field mouse gets injured and dies as a result of the haymaking, Clarke is reminded of the war and how the weak and vulnerable become victims of violence. Seamus Heaney was born in Northern Ireland in 1939, the eldest child in what was to become














