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Comparing poetry

Comparing Poems.
“Woman Work” & “Overheard in County Sligo”.

The two poems I have been studying are “Woman Work” by Maya Angelou and “Overheard in County Sligo” by Gillian Clarke. The main subject the poets are talking about is the day to day life of two women; one a black woman in the southern states of America and the other an Irish woman from “the lap of the land” in county Sligo.
There is a shared theme in the two poems, which deal with a simple every day life of two women in different countries
The first poem “Woman Work” is written with realism. We see that in the first stanza, that that there is a list of chores that the woman has to do in the daytime. The poet uses rhyming couplets to add more atmosphere to the poem e.g. “Cloths to mend, the floor to mop”. These couplets build up a relentless rhythm which portraits a representative domesticity e.g. “The children to tend, the cloths to mend”.
“And then see about the sick”
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