'Comparing and Contrasting\r'

'Compare and contrast the fashion the poets present a coarse activity? The cardinal verse forms ‘ scene of haymaker 1890’ by Molly Holden and ‘Hay-making’ by Gillian Clarke portray unpolished activity in a similar way. The poem ‘Photograph of Haymaker 1890’ consists of both stanzas and this could be consociateed to the fact that it is a reminiscing delineation of a man who cuts hay. This shows the rustic activity repayable to the fact it is the poet by chance describing a relative of hers working. Whereas, the poem ‘Hay-making’ has three very short stanzas. We can link the short, fast flowing stanzas with the fact that the title counts same with live making.The poet Molly Holden cleverly utilises the imagery of feeling and death throughout her poem ‘Photograph of Haymaker’. An example being ‘to whet his scythe’ this conveys the kernel of death and an image of a grim reaper. Holden cleverly j uxtaposes this with the phrase ‘white shirt lit by another summer’s sun’. Gillian Clarke in any case uses an intriguing juxtaposition, ‘these hot nights’. This juxtaposition shows a blistering image of natural passion. You could also link this to rustic activity if you imagine a worker possibly working in the night time. The tones of the two poems seem completely different from each other.Holden’s poem, ‘Photograph of Haymaker’ has a nostalgic tone ‘he pausing from his work… trousers tied below the knee’. The phrases use give the connotation of the poet bringing back healthy memories. This is what photographs tend to do. Clarke uses enjambment as she does not use punctuations to break up the flow of her poem and this adds to the dark tone. Towards the end of the poem we see more bear witness of rustic activity. The poet Molly Holden uses enjambment throughout the digest stanza, ‘sweet hay and gone som e seventy years ago and yet they stand forward me in the sun’.This enjambment gives the image of hay possibly falling down. We can link this to rustic activity if we create an image in our wit of hay falling down in a country farm. Gillian Clarke’s poem has an interesting caesura in front the word ‘Breathe’, this can be seen as a command possibly suggesting how the ritual of increase is metaphorically inspirational. Another important phrase which is potently linked to rustic activity is, ‘in the peter of the hay’. The ‘scratch’ of the hay creates a strong-arm link between rural nature of a farm for instance and the act of human love making. We can also say that this is onomatopoeia.\r\n'