Comparisons and Contrasts of how different poet's Past experiences have shaped their lives.

... Comparisons and Contrasts of how different poet's Past experiences have shaped their lives In poetry it is possible to discover what effects a poet has experienced and how these have shaped their lives. This essay will look deeper into the effects that the topic of the poems has had on the poet's life and the way they have been changed by them by studying and analysing certain aspects of the poem. The three poems that I have chosen to study are; "The Sick Equation" by Brian Patten, "Once Upon a Time" by Gabriel Okara and " Long Distance" by Tony Harrison. I chose these three poems in particular because they all focus on different topics that have affected the poet's life due to their background or experiences with the topic and because they are my three favourite poems. "The Sick Equation" by Tony Harrison is about the poet's past experiences with

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