"Both Seamus Heaney and Carol Anne Duffy explore childhood in their poems - What do they say about it and how effectively do they get their ideas across?"

... English Coursework Rachael Ballamy Seamus Heaney and Carol Anne Duffy "Both Seamus Heaney and Carol Anne Duffy explore childhood in their poems. What do they say about it and how effectively do they get their ideas across?" Heaney and Duffy's poems are very much about childhood and growing up, yet they are both very different. Duffy's poems show her relationships with people, so does Heaney's but some of Heaney's poems are more about serious issues e.g. the poem "Mid-Term Break". Many of Heaney's poems were written from past experiences; he grew up on a farm and many of his poems are about life on a farm, or similar surroundings e.g. "The Barn" and "Digging". The similarities of the two poets are that they both relate to past experiences, and in most of their poems, we can regard the speaker or voice being the poet himself/herself. Their childhood memories are quite different. Duffy's

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