Comparing and Contrasting Jenkins Poem He Loved Light,...

Both poems have been written about death dying and the loss of loved ones, in a once thriving Welsh mining community. The first poem by Mike Jenkins is a reflection and remembrance by a Father who tragically and suddenly lost his son in a horrific and unfortunate disaster that happened in Aberfan in 1966, where many young lives were lost. The second poem by Duncan Bush in 1995 was written when he was riddled with the disease Pneumoconiosis hence the title of his poem. Pneumoconiosis is a disease contracted by miners who worked underground toiling unaware of the affect the dust was having upon their lungs. Both men lived through an era where Welsh mining was booming because of the need for coal. This brought great commercial success†¦show more content†¦Duncan Bush, however, sets out some sentences to promote the importance of the sentence; by setting the sentence out on its own he draws attention and emphasis to that content. Mike Jenkins on the other hand does not set out certain sentences for special attention. Neither does he set out a certain structure for how many lines should be used in each stanza’s. Both use relatively the same amount of stanza’s making the poems look a lot alike in set up. ‘He loved light, freedom and animals’; the author has chosen the title carefully to make the poem sad he does this by describing a sweet adorable young boy. It is set in quotation marks, so obviously someone has said this about the young lad or, the title has been used before by another author and Mike Jenkins must have thought it fitting to use this as a fitting description for his son. Maybe these words were said in his funeral or put on the young boy tombstone and this is why Mike Jenkins has used these words as his title. The title gives the reader information about the young boy and what his life would have been like before his untimely death. Also, these words are three unrelated words, showing a boyish emotional response to three things a child would love. ‘Pneumoconiosis’; if the reader has never come across this word it captures his attention because as a city person the word is unfamiliar to my ears. By it being an