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Comfort And Affinity, By George Willam Russel
George Willam Russel is a man of great contrast, his work always manages to vary from a dark depressing tone to a light and Lovely tone. Some Work of his in particular that exemplifies this greatly is Comfort and Affinity. The Poem Comfort was a poem more about pain and longing whereas Affinity described good times shared between lovers, but the love not yet been found. Although it may seem that there should be many differences there has always managed to be a lot of room for similarities between the two.

Comfort and Affinity are two words that seem to be very similar in meaning Comfort meaning to show sympathy to others in hope to alleviate any type of pain, similar to affinity which means to show sympathy to another. With these two titles

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