The Maverick 2

Comparing “Cousin Kate” and “The Seduction”


I am comparing “ Cousin Kate ” bye Christina

Rossetti and “ The Seduction ” by Eileen McAuley. I

will look at five points of the poems , language , theme

, mood and structure. Although the poems were written

at very different times they have many similarities and

differences.




















Cousin Kate is a pity-full and sympathetic poem.

Cousin Kate makes me feel sorry for the main character because of the language she uses like " Now I moan, an unclean thing, who might have been a dove ".

The Poem “The Seduction” is a sympathetic poem, but you feel that the girl is a bit stupid.

The poem The Seduction makes me want to tell the girl how silly she was to do what she did when she was drunk and not to realise how untrue the boy’s intenti...