From your reading of a selection of poetry by poets pre 1900- post 1900, comment on their attitude and feelings towards the theme of death in at least two poems of your own choice. Compare and contrast these attitudes in your assignment.

... From your reading of a selection of poetry by poets pre 1900- post 1900, comment on their attitude and feelings towards the theme of death in at least two poems of your own choice. Compare and contrast these attitudes in your assignment. Poets usually write about issues that effect human emotion. These issues include love, war death and fear. The poems can make us feel many different emotions such as cheerful, lively, depressed and sad etc. Poets do this to express their feelings and poems are an excellent way of expression. When a poem effects human emotion it helps us to understand it better and shows how the poet feels. In the poems 'Death be not proud' by John Donne and 'Funeral Blues' by WH Auden we see two very different views of death. John Donne's poem 'Death be not proud' we see how Donne rejects the fatalistic view that most

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