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Compare the ways in which Pat Barker and Seamus Heaney use language as a central motif in 'Regeneration,' 'Death of a Naturalist' and 'North,' particularly focusing on their use of language to explore the past and memory.
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... Compare the ways in which Pat Barker and Seamus Heaney use language as a central motif in 'Regeneration,' 'Death of a Naturalist' and 'North,' particularly focusing on their use of language to explore the past and memory. The past and memory are important themes in both 'Regeneration' and Heaney's collection of poems. Barker and Heaney both use language as a central motif to explore the past and memory in their texts. Barker explores the past and memory in her poignant novel, 'Regeneration.' Through Dr. Rivers 'mental cases,' we learn of the horrors of World War One and the haunting memories the soldiers revive. In 'Digging,' 'Death of a Naturalist' and 'Blackberry-Picking' Heaney adopts a child's persona to explore the past and his childhood memories. Heaney explores the past and memory through Danish bog bodies, linking their violent deaths to the modern day violence in Ireland. Heaney also
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