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Compare and contrast the way Seamus Heaney and D.H Lawrence depict childhood feelings and memories in their poetry
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... Compare and contrast the way Seamus Heaney and D.H Lawrence depict childhood feelings and memories in their poetry In this essay I shall be examining poems from two famous poets - Seamus Heaney and D.H Lawrence. Both write about their childhood experiences and express their feelings and memories through their poetry and use poetic devices to help the reader identify with and visualise these. The poet's techniques and memories are similar in some ways, yet vividly contrast in others. I shall begin with studying two poems by Seamus Heaney - Digging and Mid term break, which deal with feelings about his father and the loss of his brother. I shall then compare these to two of D.H Lawrence's poems - Piano and Discord in Childhood, which are Lawrence's recollections about his parents and their relationship. Seamus Heaney grew up on a farm in Ireland, and many of his














