'Compare and Contrast parent-child relationships in ‘Follower’, ‘Catrin’ Essay\r'

'In the following songs we see various interesting examples of parent- nestling kinships. about are easier to relate to than others alone most slip by the stages of parent jacket crown and the challenges posed by becoming trustworthy for another per male shaver. The poets each take different lines on how they perceive/d parenthood and the each in which their shaverren reacted.\r\nIn ‘Catrin’ a metaphor of an umbilical pile is used to symbolise the relationship between begin and daughter. It seems that Gillian Clarke feels that this relationship is one that can be â€Å"neither won nor lost” and a â€Å"struggle”. She goes on to describe their everlasting holdfast despite this acting(prenominal) separation in terms of childbirth. She also says â€Å"from the optic’s pool that old rope, tightening most my life” her she is trying to reinforce her belief that her relationship with her daughter is everlasting as she discusses the impl ications of childbirth on her life. After evaluating the struggle she experiences she finally questions whether stupefy hood is right for her at this moment in her life.\r\nThis compares to ‘On my first Sonne(OM)where the father experiences extreme grief on account of the broken connection between him and his Son. Ben Jonson describes his son as â€Å"[his] right hand and joy” and is manifestly proud of his heir. However the poet makes what he feels is a key realisation that his Son in situation belongs to God. He actually feels that it was wrong(p) of him to put â€Å"too much hope in thee[his son].” In this case the connection was in fact fly-by-night and says that the son does not belong to him but God.\r\nJonson struggles with this idea and momentarily accuses God of being unfair. He at one stage feels that he would take a shit preferred to have had no connection/attachment to his son that have it cut short or disrupted. â€Å"O, could I loose all fath er, now.” In this poem Ben Jonson ends this poem with realisation of his mistake whereby Gillian Clarke ends Catrin in temporary confusion. She takes the parenting if her daughter as her responsibility while Ben Jonson admits that it isn’t his child and so the child’s wad is God’s matter but he insists that he will still do his paternal duty and love his son unconditionally.\r\nIn companion and The Affliction of Margaret (AM) the connection between parent and child is slightly different. In AM the parent is lonely, disjunct woman who has been left by her son. Like OM the mother feels that perhaps her overbearing nature is the reason for the disaster. We rile the general feeling form the mother that she would uniform to re-establish a connection with her son.”No tiding of an only child” Margaret apologises and is willing to reconcile. She is one of the only parents in the quaternity poems to admit her faults she is however not alone to f uss about her son and fear for his development in the outside world.\r\nIn Follower the son is affiliated to his father when he is young doing such activities as â€Å"[he]rode me on his back”. It is important to understand that the child is in awe of his father’s expertness and the use of various metaphors show the father envisioned as â€Å"globed.”\r\n'