Digging by Seamus Heaney, Catrin by Gillian Clarke, Little Boy Lost, Little Boy Found by William Blake and On My First Son by Ben Jonson.

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        The four poems that I have chosen to study are Digging by Seamus Heaney, Catrin by Gillian Clarke, Little Boy Lost, Little Boy Found by William Blake and On My First Son by Ben Jonson. All of theses poems express an issue of love and are all indirectly linked by some way or another on the issue of love. Digging is a poem about admiration, how Seamus Heaney as a young boy looks up to his predecessors and how he has;

“No spade to follow men like them” (Line 28 digging)

 Catrin has a basic structure of love that is becoming more and more common in today’s world, and that is emotional love. Catrin doesn’t show love for her child but it is still a bond between them and can never be broken. There are two lines in catrin which dispute this idea.

“From the hearts pool that old rope, tightening about my life” (lines 25-26 catrin)

 The emotional love shall never be broken despite there being no apparent love. The other quote being lines

“Our first confrontation, the tight red rope of love which we both fought over.”

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(Lines 7-9 catrin)

The umbilical cord holding the two together.

  Little Boy Lost Little Boy Found, this poem has love within the family and the desperation of a father to find his son again, eventually he does and he is metaphorically spoken of as god.

“But god ever nigh appeared like his father in white.” (Lines 3-4 Little boy found)

 On my first son is about a child growing up and ‘leaving the nest’ for the father is upset that his little boy has grown up and he can no long be with him ...

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