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Comparison of three poems by Seamus Heaney, Gillian Clarke and Walt Whitman.
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... Comparison of three poems by Seamus Heaney, Gillian Clarke and Walt Whitman Both poets Heaney and Clarke have hidden depths within their poems. For example in Storm on the Island, "We are bombarded by the empty air. Strange, it is a huge nothing we fear." The vocabulary here evokes the image of a war. "Bombarded" shows us this. The title of this poem indicates the idea of that the island is Ireland as they have a main civil wars between the Catholics and the Protestants. Furthermore October has a much deeper meaning then it seems to reveal. "I must write like the wind, year after year Passing my death-day, winning ground." This conveys a sense of a person desiring to forfill their purpose in life and successfully facing up to mortality. Whitman and Heaney have both written poems, which show death is lurking behind the
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