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Digging by Seamus Heaney, Catrin by Gillian Clarke, Little Boy Lost, Little Boy Found by William Blake and On My First Son by Ben Jonson.
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... POEMS The four poems that I have chosen to study are Digging by Seamus Heaney, Catrin by Gillian Clarke, Little Boy Lost, Little Boy Found by William Blake and On My First Son by Ben Jonson. All of theses poems express an issue of love and are all indirectly linked by some way or another on the issue of love. Digging is a poem about admiration, how Seamus Heaney as a young boy looks up to his predecessors and how he has; "No spade to follow men like them" (Line 28 digging) Catrin has a basic structure of love that is becoming more and more common in today's world, and that is emotional love. Catrin doesn't show love for her child but it is still a bond between them and can never be broken. There are two lines in catrin which dispute this idea. "From the hearts pool that
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