Looking at the poems "Cousin Kate" by Christina Rossetti and "the Seduction" by Eileen McAuley you can see that they contrast in many different ways.

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Looking at the poems "Cousin Kate" by Christina Rossetti and "the Seduction" by Eileen McAuley you can see that they contrast in many different ways.

Apart from the clear differences in the structure of these two texts, the similarity is between the authors. A female Christina Rossetti who seemed to be very ardent in her work and towards what men wrote about women, a feminist woman, wrote "Cousin Kate" in the Victorian times. This was very unusual for his time, as women then did not have any rights or allowed to speak out and were treated unfairly particularly by men. The author of the 1980's poem 'The seduction' is a young woman from Liverpool, who also had very strong view towards women. Eileen's views are not that surprising for then or now as women have many more rights and are treated as much as and equal to men. Women have also gained the respect of men. What is very surprising is that both texts are both related to the same topic and both of a very similar view. Linking back to the previous paragraph another difference between the two texts is the setting and difference in the periods of time,