YEAR 11 POETRY COURSE-WORK

The two poems I am studying in my course-work are "Lore" by R.S. Thomas and "Woman Work" by Maya Angelou. "Lore" is about a man ‘Job Davies' and his working life. "Woman Work" is, as it suggests in the title, about a woman and her working life. In my course-work I am going to compare and contrast how each poet treats the theme of life and work.
R.S. Thomas was born in Cardiff in 1913. He attended the Country School in Holyhead and then attended the University college of North Wales. He became a curate in the Anglican Church and retired in 1978. He used simple language in his poetry and his poems reflect his interest in the Countryside, Wales and religion. He died in 2000. Marguerite Annie Johnson was born in 1928 in Missouri in the American South. She adopted the name Maya Angelou in the late twenties. Her mother's boyfriend raped her when she was seven and worked for the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. She is very vociferous about the......

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