Unseen Poetry

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Unseen Poetry: To My Mother and Christina Rossetti

Similarities

  • Love and affection they feel towards their mothers
  • Similar poetic form (sonnet) : first is Shakespearean
  • Use similar forms of imagery through metaphors and personifications
  • Death of mothers
  • Discuss powerful and fundamental love they receive from both biological and adopted mothers

Differences

  • Second is more loosely structures, not clear on which type of sonnet, mixed rhyme scheme, extra line at end
  • The first has more generalised motherhood - different mothers (adoptive, mother in law and biological) while the second is purely focused on biological.

Overall comparison

While poems are similar in terms of portraying the distinctive love of a mother, the first poem focuses more on motherhood in general while the second poem is more personal, focusing purely on his own mother. They both discuss the fundamentality of the love a mother gives to their children, both before and after death. While the structures are somewhat similar and seem to be in the form of a sonnet, the second breaks this structure slightly.

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Molly325

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This resource is so useful!!

TashaElizabeth1

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You helped me write it... you unnatural hag!

Molly325

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stop quoting King Lear!

TashaElizabeth1

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But Molly... nothing can come of nothing.

Molly325

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Tasha...time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides!