The first poem I am going to analyse is Cousin Kate this poem is written about a cottage maiden who falls in love with a rich

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The first poem I am going to analyse is “Cousin Kate” this poem is written about a cottage maiden who falls in love with a rich lord it is set in 1890 on a farm. It was written by Christina Rossetti who was born in London, one of four children of Italian parents. Her father was the poet Gabriele Rossetti (1783-1854), professor of Italian at King's College from 1831. He resigned in 1845 because of blindness. All the four children in the family became writers; Dante Gabriel also gained fame as a painter. Christina was educated at home by her mother, Frances Polidori, a former governess, an Anglican of devout evangelical bent. She shared her parents' interest in poetry and was portrayed in the paintings and drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites. Christina was the model for his brother's picture The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1849). The second poem is called “The Seduction” by Eileen McAuley this is set in 1960s Liverpool and is about a young girl who gets all these images of the perfect boy in her head and they a shattered by one night.

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The scene for poem one is on a farm were the maiden works. The second poem is set on the edge of the Merseyside. Both poems are about lust and love and betrayal both poems also contain men who are only after one thing. “Cousin Kate’s” title doesn’t really portray how the poem is going to go were as the title “The Seduction” explains fully.  

Poets use poetic techniques to distinguish their work from every one else also it gives the poem flow and structure. In “Cousin Kate” the poet uses alliteration well also there are lots ...

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