Contrast and comparison of "Cousin Kate" written by Christina Rossetti and "The seduction" by Eileen McAuley.

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Contrast and comparison of two poems. Jeremy Chang

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I am going to compare and contrast two poems , "Cousin Kate" written by Christina Rossetti and "The seduction" by Eileen McAuley. I will pick out important bits from each poem and use them to compare and contrast the poems.

The first poem "Cousin Kate" is all about a rejected woman. In the first four verses she wails her personal pain, about her experiences. She has been cast out and now looks back on her past life experiences with remorse. She has been betrayed by someone the one person she trusted the most. She feels dejected and , looking back on her life, she can see how foolish she was , now there is only pain and anguish. In the next two verses she recounts how her cousin Kate attracted her lords attention. Kate was swept into his home as she was years ago. He tempts Kate same way as she was when she was younger and he took interest in her. In the last two verses, She returns to her own feelings, she talks about what she would have done had she been cousin