Compare this poem with one other poem from the selection, on a similar theme explaining which you find more interesting and why.You should also show how the poet uses language to achieve their effects.

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Read again the evacuee by R.S Thomas. In this poem has something to say about the influence of nature on human beings.

Compare this poem with one other poem from the selection, on a similar theme explaining which you find more interesting and why.

You should also show how the poet uses language to achieve their effects.

I have compared two poems, to study the poet’s portrayal of the influence of nature on human beings. In both poems nature has had a large influence on the mentioned child’s life. The relationship between the children in the poems and nature is developed throughout the evacuee and constant in the farm child. In the evacuee the effect nature has on the girl is clearer than the affect of nature on the boy in farm child. As she has not always been so vole to nature, whereas the boy in farm child has lived in harmony with nature his whole life.

I have chosen to compare farm child with the evacuee, as both poems show the effect nature can have on children.

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In choosing a poem to compare I choose farm child as its meaning is that as a child the boy is very clearly related and influenced by nature, but as he grows up he must learn to work against nature as opposed to being in harmony with it. This is shown in the last line, “earth breeds and beckons to the stubborn plough.”

Farm child is made up of one short ten-line stanza, which leads directly to a conclusion. The simple structure encapsulates as idea and seems to catch a moment in the boy’s life.

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