"Compare how Gillian Clarke and Seamus Heaney present different images of the past".

... "Compare how Gillian Clarke and Seamus Heaney present different images of the past" Both poets, Seamus Heaney and Gillian have different nationalities and backgrounds. Seamus Heaney is from a traditional Irish Farming background. The majority of his family are also farmers. Whereas Gillian Clarke is Welsh, and was probably bought up in an urban background. Heaney indicates from his poems that he wants to share his past memories; he wants people to know about periods of his youth life. All his poems are centred on past memories. In comparison to Gillian Clarke whose work in poems are about what memories are, and reasons for respecting memories. 'Follower', by Heaney is about his life on the farm. From the first line he starts to discuss his images from the past. "My father worked with a horse-plough" The rest of the first verse describes what image Heaney had of his father. "His shoulders globed like

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