The similarities and differences in relationships between ‘Mid Term Brake’ and ‘Digging’
In Digging the author shows a lot more admiration than in Mid Term Brake in digging the author says ‘by god that man could handle a spade.’ He shows his admiration by using the phrase ‘by god’ this phrase is used to emphasise being really good at something, for example ‘by god football was his sport’ it would mean he was very good at football. To take the words very literally it would mean ‘they were level with god’ in the speaker’s perspective. Where as in Mid Term Brake Seamus only shows admiration in the phrase ‘he had always taken funerals in his stride’ this portrays admiration as using the phrase ‘he had always’ gives the impression he is very strong willed and prominent as it is given by Seamus it leads us to believe he looks up the his father. In digging when the author is talking about his grandfather he also uses ‘by god he could handle a spade’. Which again show admiration.
Something I notice while reading Digging was as sense of distance from his father where they never have any contact and it seems more like the author is spectating than part of the poem, I saw this because apart from the analogy about carrying milk the author doesn’t interact with the action of the poem where as in Mid Term Brake the poem is centred around the author this gives a more intimate feel for the relationships between characters where Digging gives a sense of a detached relationship.
There is also differentiation in-between characters in the same poem, this is shown in Mid Term Brake when Seamus ‘met’ his farther but held his hand in his mother’s this shows that his relation with his mother was a more intimate physical relationship compared to the relationship with the farther, the author could have used this to show how the death of a loved one affects people differently. As some may seek contact others may isolate themselves.
Sound also a difference between the two poems in Mid Term Brake the sounds slowly fades out to represent the faded relationship to the lost
Something I notice while reading Digging was as sense of distance from his father where they never have any contact and it seems more like the author is spectating than part of the poem, I saw this because apart from the analogy about carrying milk the author doesn’t interact with the action of the poem where as in Mid Term Brake the poem is centred around the author this gives a more intimate feel for the relationships between characters where Digging gives a sense of a detached relationship.
There is also differentiation in-between characters in the same poem, this is shown in Mid Term Brake when Seamus ‘met’ his farther but held his hand in his mother’s this shows that his relation with his mother was a more intimate physical relationship compared to the relationship with the farther, the author could have used this to show how the death of a loved one affects people differently. As some may seek contact others may isolate themselves.
Sound also a difference between the two poems in Mid Term Brake the sounds slowly fades out to represent the faded relationship to the lost