Compare Two Poem
“Digging” And “ Stop All The Clocks”
“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”
Stephen King
How can you do with your experience? Some people will share it, but some will keep it for themselves. Both “Digging” by Seamus Heaney and “Stop All The Clocks” by W. H. Auden are beautifully opposite poems about family and love. By using two opposite themes, imageries and rhymes, both poems bring to reader different feeling.
The first similar thing between “Digging” and “Stop all clocks” is their theme. Both of them talk about their personal experience. However, the reader still can find the difference when they read these poems. In “Digging” by Seamus Heaney, the readers can see the multiple themes. The first theme is strength and skill. He describes how his farther and his grandfather work in the potatoes field. “Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds/Bends low, come up twenty years away/stooping in rhythm through potato drills/where he was digging.” (line 6-9). However, for the speaker, his skill is writing. He also has skill, but that is the skill with pen and paper. “Between my finger and my thumb/The squat pen rests; snug as a gun”. The second theme in “Digging” is family. When people read this poem, they can see how the speaker expresses his care and love to his grandfather and his father. Although, the speaker is working with his pen and paper in his room he still observe what father is working. “Under my window, a clean resping sound/When the spade sinks into gravelly ground:/Myfather, digging. I look down.”(line 3-5). He also reminiscences about his grandfather’s role in farming and he admires what his grandfather can do. “My grandfather cut more turf in a day/Than any other man on Toner’s bog.”(line 17-18). He also remembers that he used to take milk to his grandfather to drink. “Once I carried him milk in a bottle/Coork sloppily with paper. He straightened
“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”
Stephen King
How can you do with your experience? Some people will share it, but some will keep it for themselves. Both “Digging” by Seamus Heaney and “Stop All The Clocks” by W. H. Auden are beautifully opposite poems about family and love. By using two opposite themes, imageries and rhymes, both poems bring to reader different feeling.
The first similar thing between “Digging” and “Stop all clocks” is their theme. Both of them talk about their personal experience. However, the reader still can find the difference when they read these poems. In “Digging” by Seamus Heaney, the readers can see the multiple themes. The first theme is strength and skill. He describes how his farther and his grandfather work in the potatoes field. “Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds/Bends low, come up twenty years away/stooping in rhythm through potato drills/where he was digging.” (line 6-9). However, for the speaker, his skill is writing. He also has skill, but that is the skill with pen and paper. “Between my finger and my thumb/The squat pen rests; snug as a gun”. The second theme in “Digging” is family. When people read this poem, they can see how the speaker expresses his care and love to his grandfather and his father. Although, the speaker is working with his pen and paper in his room he still observe what father is working. “Under my window, a clean resping sound/When the spade sinks into gravelly ground:/Myfather, digging. I look down.”(line 3-5). He also reminiscences about his grandfather’s role in farming and he admires what his grandfather can do. “My grandfather cut more turf in a day/Than any other man on Toner’s bog.”(line 17-18). He also remembers that he used to take milk to his grandfather to drink. “Once I carried him milk in a bottle/Coork sloppily with paper. He straightened