Heaney's 'An Advancement of Learning' and 'Churning Day', and Ted Hughes' 'Roe-Deer', all use language and structure to enhance the meaning of the poem. Heaney's style of poetry tends to be much more personal as it clearly reverts to his own life experiences. Thus, the types of themes present in Heaney's poems are typically things like tradition, identity, regeneration and as always conflict. Alternatively, Hughes' style of poetry has a propensity to be perplexing as …
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…almost as if Heaney wished he could be back there again, watching his mother get spattered with flabby milk. Overall I have discovered that a poet's background may affect their work, like Heaney, and the main source of differences between the poems I've studied is their style, and as a result the themes employed. By studying the themes of both poets work, I can conclude that language and structure enhance the meaning of a poem.