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"Compare and Contrast 'Catrin' by Gillian Clarke with 'Digging' by Seamus Heaney
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... "Compare and Contrast 'Catrin' by Gillian Clarke with 'Digging' by Seamus Heaney. In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting 'Digging' by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney with 'Catrin' by the Welsh poet Gillian Clarke. I will begin by discussing the aspects of 'Digging' which includes the title, content, theme, setting, style, message and my own personal response. I will also explain what the two poems are about. Following the discussion of 'Digging' I will then compare it with the poem 'Catrin'. The tittle 'Digging' creates a lot of images and plans many scenarios towards what it actually stands for. What it tells me about the poem is that 'Digging' is the main feature and could be used to compare with other activities. It shows it's about people digging with shiny spades on dirty parts of land. The setting of the poem changes due to Heaney's memories of













