Compare and Contrast the Works of Two Poets Who Write On the Themes of People and the Landscape.

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        JINESH ADATIA 10BN

COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE WORKS OF TWO POETS WHO WRITE ON THE THEMES OF PEOPLE AND THE LANDSCAPE.

The two poets I have chosen for this assignment are William Wordsworth and Richard Stuart Thomas. These are a few of the poets who liked to talk about landscapes and people in their poems. I am going to see what the differences between these great poets are and also the similarities.

William Wordsworth was born in 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in the Lake District. His father was John Wordsworth who was an attorney. When he was seventeen he went to Cambridge University. Then after a few years he went to St John's College, Cambridge. This was all the studying he did; he then went on to write his poems. He wrote a few poems in different countries like France, Germany, Switzerland and in Wales. Wordsworth died in Rydal Mount, Ambleside on April 23, 1850. Wordsworth was described as a romantic poet.

R. S. Thomas was a leading welsh poet Born in Cardiff (Wales) in 1913. He was educated at the College of North Wales University, Bangor. He then trained theology at St Michael's College, Llandaf in Cardiff. He was then Ordained (he was a vicar) in 1936. He was also the rector of Manafon in 1942. He then went on to become a vicar as well as a poet. He then retired in 1967 at the Age of 55. Then he wrote many of his memorable poems, and then died on the 25th September 2000.

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R. S. Thomas and William Wordsworth were two very different but then again very similar Poets. R. S. Thomas was more of a negative poet, as he wrote things like,

“ Pause a minute,

Let the mind take its photograph

Of the bright scene, something to wear

Against the heart in the long cold.”

Where as Wordsworth writes,

                        “Never did the sun more beautifully steep.”

So as R. S. Thomas is saying nothing last forever, the beautiful scenery that he is seeing in front of him will not all ways be a picturesque sight. So ...

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