The Seduction and Cousin Kate mpare and contrast the way the writers portray the males and females in both poems.

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Compare and contrast the way the writers portray the males and females in both poems.

The Seduction and Cousin Kate was written in the 20th Century. The two poems talk about the consequences of being seduced. In Cousin Kate, It is about a young cottage maiden who falls pregnant by a man who is the 'Lord of the manor'. And then whilst the maiden is pregnant the man plans to marry the girls cousin who is Kate.

The male in the first poem thinks of her as a joke. He is willing to seduce the girl and then dump her. He is making her drink alcohol and then the more she drinks, the more attracted she gets to the boy. He later mutters ‘you little slag’, because she was drunk and nervous.  In this poem there is nothing romantic, because the boy talks about football rather than romance. I know this because in the text it says “He’d told her about football; Sammy Lee and Ian Rush”.

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The way he thinks of her, shows his disrespect. He took her to Birkenhead docks to have an intercourse with her; she drinks alcohol and falls in love with the man.

She is not aware of what she is doing. She ends up getting pregnant. He was talking about football which is not a romantic conversation.

When he bought her more drinks she fell in love with his eyes. I know this because it describes them. For example “Eyes blue as iodine”.

In the post 20th poem the male treats the girl disrespectfully. It says “With the fingers that stroked ...

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