Discuss the way in which poets represent death in their poems. The poems are MIDTERM BREAK BY Seamus Heaney, THE FIELD MOUSE by Gillian Clarke, THE MAN HE KILLED by Thomas Hardy and ON MY FIRST SONNE by Ben Jonson.

... The purpose of this coursework is to discuss the way in which poets represent death in their poems. The poems are MIDTERM BREAK BY Seamus Heaney, THE FIELD MOUSE by Gillian Clarke, THE MAN HE KILLED by Thomas Hardy and ON MY FIRST SONNE by Ben Jonson. Both THE MAN HE KILLED and THE FIELD MOUSE have the theme of death in battle. Clarke takes a symbolic look at the war. This may be because she wants to show the emotion behind the poem but she cannot go into great detail because she has not experienced it. She shows the horror symbolically but yet it is very graphic. Thomas Hardy takes a more casual approach to his poem. He may have used this method because he wanted to disguise his true feelings. The persona is in a difficult position and has to do his job. The name of Hardy's poem is 'THE

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