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For this essay I shall compare Churning Day - by Seamus Heaney, The Sick Equation - by Brian Patten and An Advancement of Learning by Seamus Heaney.
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... Several of the poems in your anthology deal with personal experience, choose 4 and compare them thinking particularly about how the poets use language to make their experiences more vivid For this essay I shall compare Churning Day - by Seamus Heaney, The Sick Equation - by Brian Patten and An Advancement of Learning by Seamus Heaney. All three poems share very personal experiences which all appear to be recalled from a fairly young age. Brian Patten and Seamus Heaney clearly lived in very different places, Patten was brought up in Liverpool - an exciting and fashionable urban city whilst Heaney grew up in the less glamorous Northern Ireland. Though both poets clearly came from very ordinary working class backgrounds. Churning Day is very descriptive and detailed, it gives a very vivid description of Heaney's experiences on "Churning Day." In the poem Heaney describes Churning Day in enormous detail. He uses lots
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