Poets Gillian Clarke and R.S.Thomas have a lot of similarities when comparing their lives and poems. They are both Anglo Welsh and are equally concerned about landscape and their surroundings. The two poets have written about nature and the environment. They were both born in Cardiff and are equally English speakers so can relate to each other. R.S.Thomas has written about a vast landscape and countryside in his poem 'Welsh Landscape.…
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…and at the end he talks about decaying. He started off positively but gradually became negative. R.S.Thomas has written about the history of Wales and how his community are stuck in the past whereas Gillian Clarke has written about the decline in heavy industry and how it affects the community. The messages in these poems don't have much significance in today's world but if they did, I think Welsh landscape is more helpful.