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How do poets use nature to present their ideas? Refer to "At a Potato Digging' by Seamus Heaney, a poem by Clarke, and two pre 1914 poems.
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... ·How do poets use nature to present their ideas? Refer to "At a Potato Digging' by Seamus Heaney, a poem by Clarke, and two pre 1914 poems. · "At a Potato Digging" written by Seamus Heaney uses the natural activity of growing potatoes to portray a much deeper, more complex and involved meaning. The whole essence of this poem uses nature to depict and describe past situations. Heaney uses a normal aspect of farming to discuss and evaluate other issues such as the vagaries of nature, the Irish famine of the 1800's, mankinds relationship with nature and optimism for the future built on a sober respect for a bitter and tragic past. The first stanza places the emphasis on the arduous (strenuous) work that the labourers had to endure whilst gathering the potato crop. "Labourer's...swarm...stoop...Fingers go bad in the cold..." These words are associated with the past and the pain and suffering
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