Compare And Contrast “Patrolling Barnegat” By Wal

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Compare And Contrast “Patrolling Barnegat” By Walt Whitman And “Storm On The island” By Seamus Heaney. In this essay, I am going to compare these 2 poems, “Patrolling Barnegat” by Walt Whitman and “Storm On The Island” by Seamus Heaney. Walt Whitman was born on Long Island situated in the city of New York on the 31st May 1819 and passed away in a place called Camden New Jersey on the 26th March 1892. Whitman had very little education but managed to get a job as a nurse during the Civil war. He later went on to become ill after suffering a stroke which later led to his death. He was among the most influential poets in America. He was also known as “The Father Of Free Verse”. Seamus Heaney, on the other hand, was born in a place between Castledawson and Toomebridge in Northern Ireland in 1939 and now, still lives on to this day. Heaney writes a lot of his poetry based around the countryside and the farm life of his childhood; this is because his father is a farmer. He managed to win a scholarship at the age of 12 to a Catholic boarding school which was called St. Columb's College. “Patrolling Barnegat” is set on a beach on a turbulent, stormy night and “Storm On The Island” is set in a cliff top cottage on an island just off the coast of Ireland during a storm. “Patrolling Barnegat” is about a person, possibly Whitman, walking unaccompanied on the beach; he can see something but cannot make out what it is. He finds out it is a storm and then starts to describe it in detail. “Storm On The Island” is about a storm which is heading towards an island. This poem is telling us about what they are going to do in the situation of the storm causing great destruction. There are no trees that grow near the houses because if they were, it would be highly likely that they would collapse on to them. There are 14 lines in “Patrolling Barnegat” and is all one stanza. It

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