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Comparing Cousin Kate and The Seduction.
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COMPARING "COUSIN KATE" AND "THE SEDUCTION" Cousin Kate is a pre twentieth century poem, written in ballet style (set in verse0 in a very rural countryside. It was written by Christina Rosseti, her voice is that of a young woman working as a cottage maiden that falls in love with a lord and gets pregnant, and is then discarded for her cousin Kate who marries the lord. The second poem "the seduction" is a more modern poem with an urban setting, and is written in narrative form. The rhyme and rhythm is disjointed and irregular. A teenage girl goes to a party and leaves with a young man who gets her drunk and seduces her. Shortly after the young girl discovers she is pregnant as a result of this one night stand and her whole life is shattered. Both poems have many similarities although were in different eras. They are both about love...
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