Compare a selection of poems you have enjoyed studying, explaining what interests you about the presentation of relationships.

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Compare a selection of poems you have enjoyed studying, explaining what interests you about the presentation of relationships.

Poets often write about  things they have strong emotions for, such as points of view and key moments in their ,or others, lives.

One of the main things written about is relationships. Be it the relationship between the poet and a family member or relationships between objects and memories.

Relationships and emotions are a complex thing to right about, because there is such a wide range. However everyone has had the experience of a relationship but some express there feelings in more complex way.

Looking at You’re and Daddy by Sylvia Plath and Twelve Songs-number nine  by W.H.Auden. You can clearly see there views on different relationships.

There are many different types of relationships, as shown in the three poems I have choose to look at. In You’re Plath is writing about her unborn baby. At first it is very hard to understand because Plath does not write simply that she is pregnant instead she uses different phrases and metaphors, for instance “my little loaf”. When a women is pregnant the baby is sometimes referred to as a bun in the oven, so by saying “loaf” it shows that Plath is stating that she is pregnant. In addition, it is a symbolisation of a baby in the mothers womb, as a bun in the oven. By saying “my little” Plath is showing that the baby belongs to her and when you think of something little it is thought of as unable to look after itself as  a baby is. To also show that she is pregnant Plath says “feet to the stars” this is because e when a baby is inside its mother it is upside down, therefore its feet would be to the stars, by picking “the stars” as were the babies feet are facing it shows that the baby can achieve anything, Plath could have chosen something like the sky which is close but she choose the  stars because there so fare away and are hard to reach.

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She also shows that the baby has its whole life ahead of it, using the words “clean slate, with your own face on it” show that it is the baby and its life not hers.

However in Auden’s poem Twelve Songs the relationship is stated more clearly. It is easier to understand because it uses all things associated with death “Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come”. this shows very simply that an important person in Auden’s life is now dead and by saying “mourners” it shows there is a lot of sadness. If the reader did not ...

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