Compare how attitudes towards other people are shown in: Follower (Seamus Heaney), Catrin (Gillian Clarke), The Song of The Old Mother (William Butler Yeats) and, lastly, On My 1st Sonne (Ben Johnson).

... Question: Compare how attitudes towards other people are shown in: Follower (Seamus Heaney), Catrin (Gillian Clarke), The Song of The Old Mother (William Butler Yeats) and, lastly, On My 1st Sonne (Ben Johnson). The way we act towards others can literally shape our relationships with them. Due to the immense effect our attitudes can have, when they are portrayed in poetry, writers seem to do so using a wide variety of both vivid and subtle techniques. The purpose of this essay is to compare the way it is done on four poems; Follower (Seamus Heaney), Catrin (Gillian Clarke), The Song of The Old Mother (William Butler Yeats) and, finally, On My 1st Sonne (Ben Johnson). A conclusion will also be formed onto which poet does this most successfully. The main relationship being portrayed by Seamus Heaney in 'Follower' is that between a father and son. Traditionally one of the strongest

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