Compare the poems, showing how the two poets use language to express their feelings.

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Suba Kanapathippillai

Write about the two stories, comparing the main characters and the relationships between men and women?

In Tickets please by D.H Lawrence the character of John Thomas is shown and his attitude towards women. He enjoys flirting with lots of women and always chooses the pretty ones. ‘Flirts with conductors in the morning, and walks out with them in the dark night’. John Thomas appears to become acquainted with variety of women very quickly. From meeting a woman in the morning time, he will be taking her out in the same evening. He is portrayed as having a charming character, although at times he is cheeky. ‘He always came up smiling, with impudence’. He has a pleasant look on his face but on some occasions he can be disrespectful.

At the end of the story John Thomas becomes ‘uneasy’ and through the women who he has been seeing are all together he begins ‘mistrusting them’. Obviously he is feeling uncomfortable because he is shocked by the fact that suddenly he is confronted with the seven women, who he has been flirting with all in one place. Needless to say he feels a sense of mistrust as it must be clear to him that the women have been talking together and discovered that he has flirted with all of them. At the point where the women decide to attract him he feels insecure and trapped. He becomes very angry but he is also terrified. ‘He struggled in a wild frenzy of fury and terror’. This quote shows that he is very angry, but at the same time he becomes timid and frightened because of the way in which the women have treated him. He begins to feel powerless as the women have the upper hand.

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At the beginning of Tickets Please the women who are tall, young, girls with beautiful hair are not particularly charming people to know they are brave and in no way bashful. They are indeed strong women who have just started work for the first time in history. They are wearing skirts up to their knees and a hat, which is part of their uniform. They are not afraid of anybody. They are powerful and very hard in their nature. ‘Their faces were flushed, their hair wild, their eyes were all glitering strangely’. The women described in this way because their ...

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