Compare the ways the poets use imagery in four or more of the poems you have studied. You should write about 'Digging' by Seamus Heaney and compare it with at least one poem by Gillian Clarke and two poems from the pre-1914 bank.

... Compare the ways the poets use imagery in four or more of the poems you have studied. You should write about 'Digging' by Seamus Heaney and compare it with at least one poem by Gillian Clarke and two poems from the pre-1914 bank. 'Digging' by Seamus Heaney, 'Catrin' by Gillian Clarke, 'The Little Boy Lost' by William Blake and 'Tichborne's Elegy' by Charles Tichborne are the four poems that are going to be compared. Each of these poems all contain images which create a feeling of apprehension and express feelings of insecurity and uncertainty. 'Digging' by Seamus Heaney uses images in concern to his future as a poet following his family all being farmers. Perhaps the most central image of the poem is contained on line two, "The squat pen rests; snug as a gun". This image expresses Seamus Heaney's pen as a gun, and that he could use it

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