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Poetry and Children.
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- Fri Jan 14 2005

... This assignment is on the way in which childhood is presented by three poets who convey their thoughts and possibly their personal experiences in three poems, which I will try to analyse. The poets' writing is heavily influenced either by their own childhood or by observing children who enjoy their time without responsibilities. The poems I will be looking at are R.S Thomas's "Children's Song;" "Blackberry Picking" by Seamus Heaney and another Heaney poem, a sonnet from the sequence called "Clearances" Number 3 is my chosen excerpt. In the essay I hope to explain why I picked each poem and to suggest how the poet was influenced when writing these poems. The Heaney poems reflect his up bringing as a child growing up in the post-war years and height of the troubles. The R.S Thomas poem Children's Song is very different in style as he attempts














