Pain in Growing Up, Snowdrops, and Your Shoes

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Pain in Growing Up, Snowdrops, and Your Shoes Works Cited Missing First I will start by examining the similarities between these three poems. Snowdrops and Your Shoes both show pain through losing someone that they love. If it's that they have died or that they have left for no reason. They both feel huge pain which has caused them to become disconnected from the rest of the world: "It's cosy in here. Peaceful, too. I've unplugged the phone so that I can concentrate on you and we shan't be disturbed." Your Shoes pg 71 lines 153-154 Growing Up and Snowdrops both show an actual physical pain where the father is attacked by the children and bitten by the dead and in the motorbike accident where the boyfriend is killed. This physical pain is dealt with by the characters with the emotion pain. In Snowdrops the teacher shows this by crying and the father shows this in his disappointment of the children: "Miss Webster was sitting at her desk, her head in her hands. Everything was very still." Snowdrops pg 91 lines 115-116 Another similarity is that both Your Shoes and Growing Up show pain through the actions of their children. The separation of relationships between the parents and the adults has followed on to cause pain for the adults. They no longer feel as close to their children or like they know as much as they thought they did about their children as they used to, this has brought them a form of pain: "No, he thought, not quite a game-not for half a second. She's growing up and so am I." Growing Up page 77 lines 177-178 Lastly all three of the poems are reasonably long and go into a lot of detail about the story and the views of the characters which give us a bigger insight to the feelings of each character and how they are able to deal with pain. As well as all of the similarities that these three poems have when referring to pain they also have many differences: First of all they

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