Task: Compare "The Seduction" by Eileen McAuley and "Cousin Kate" by Christina Rossetti.

In this essay I will compare "The Seduction" written by Eileen McAuley and "Cousin Kate" by Christina Rossetti. They are both classified as love poems, and are both critiques of the society that the characters and the authors live in, and the way the country was run at those times.
"The Seduction" is set in 1980's Liverpool in the de-industrialisation period of Thatcherism. This is obvious by the way that Birkenhead docks are "quiet", this should not be the case as docks should be full of people.
"Cousin Kate" is set in the early nineteenth century. At that point in time it was for the most part a patriarchal society. Men had power over women; women could not own anything; women could the only own property if they married a male who owned the property.
"The Seduction" is about an innocent girl that gets sucked into a trap by a young man who seems to have had a rough upbringing. You can see this when McAuley write...