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resource. The Lord leads on the maid and has sex with her for his own pleasure. However, the poems
ending is on a happier note and the poet portrays the image of the pleasure that the child has brought
the mother. She loses her virginity to him, and then regrets the whole ordeal. The adjectives are used
to show that no one will be around to see what's going on. She then goes on to talk about peoples'
opinion of her. 'The neighbours call you good and pure, call me an outcast thing'. The maiden
constantly compares her self to Cousin Kate in this stanza. The lord abuses his power because he
knows that the women cannot refuse him because they work for him and would not refuse him
because he is wealthy and they are living in a time of bad poverty. The poem tells us that he led her
there so they could not be seen. It means that she is always working on the land and her hands have
become hardened by all the work. She tells the reader about how her father as the most important
child chose her cousin and how she was cast away. This is not a statement of a woman who is proud
of what she has done. She then goes on to talk about people’s opinions of her. “The neighbours call
you good and pure, call me an outcast thing”. The word 'lured' tells us that he dragged her in like an
animal luring its prey, waiting to attack its victim. 'Palace home' immediately tells us that he's a man
of richness and wealth, if the title 'Lord' doesn't already give it away. Secondly, just two lines later,
writes Rossetti, 'his plaything and his love'. Although I wouldn’t choose it over an other really. Both
poems warn about pregnancy but 'The Seduction' is easier to understand for people my age. Because
she was drunk she wasn’t in the right state of mind so wasn’t thinking straight when she was
supposedly falling in love with him. As we join her as she finds out she’s three months gone. I feel
more sorry for the maid in 'Cousin Kate' than the girl in 'The Seduction'. We can also imagine the
pride and love the mother has for the child. In both examples the girls are worried about what other
people (the neighbours) think of them. She’s distraught over it as she rips up all of her “my guy” and
“Jackie Collins” magazines and throws her “white shoes at the wall” At this stage of the poem I
honestly feel sorry for her. This brings into light the difference between higher and lower class
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what you were looking for. Its structure is comprised of six eight line stanzas. First of all I will go
through the love that the teenage girl drunkenly displays towards the boy. The poem has a female as
the central character, we don’t know her name but we do know that she works as a cottage maiden
and has a lord as her boss. If the lord cannot get his own way, he will use his money to change the
situation. The maid feels that she has been spoilt or at least tainted by the lord.
This basically means that the lord used the cottage maiden as a trophy and used her when he wanted
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resource. Students have found these resources extremely engaging, and it is clearly highlighted
within each task regarding which assessment strands the task is designed to demonstrate. These
chemical influences are absent in the earlier dated poem. She tells the reader how she fell in love
with the Lord and it was a meaningful relationship for an unstated period of time. This website and
its content are subject to our Terms and Conditions. The poem demonstrates how a man can love a
woman, then throw her away and move onto another as he pleases, and because he was a lord the
cottage maiden could not say a thing. All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited
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required to reflect your happiness. Even though the poems are written in different centuries and
nowadays it may be more acceptable to have a child out of wedlock, the fact remains that some
women are still judged and treated as outcasts. The maid's feelings vary greatly through the poem, at
first she feels excited and love struck with the lord. It was seen to be unclean and impure if you were
to have sex before marriage. The simile “with his eyes as blue as iodine” enhances how toxic and
dangerous this boy is. “ kisses that tasted of nicotine” reinforces this. In 'The Seduction', the poem is
written in the third person. 'Cousin Kate' is about a cottage maiden who is seduced by a powerful,
rich lord. This could be an example of the girl realising her guilt and beginning to face up to the
mistakes she's made. This poem is featured in some GCSE English Literature syllabuses and explores
themes such as loss, jealousy and courtly love which allows it to be useful to compare to other
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quite what you were looking for. The fact that the poem rhymes allows it to flow easily. Both poems
warn about pregnancy but 'The Seduction' is easier to understand for people my age. At the time
there is a possibility that she might have thought she was in love. She truly loved the lord, more than
she believes Kate does. The use of pathetic fallacy where the river mirrors the girl’s situation again
emphasises that she is in a situation she can’t get out of, “Septic wound” implies that the boy will
hurt her. She has mixed feelings for her son, as she is ashamed of him because she is not married to
his father but also proud of him because he is hers. You can change this and find out more by
following this link Accept Cookies. In “Cousin Kate” the cottage maiden is content and even smug
because she has “a gift you have not got” when she refers to the barren status of her successor. Each
organiser contains a number of detailed, clear, and colourful sections explaining the key elements of
the poem. The maiden may just be saying this for revenge against Cousin Kate to try and make
herself feel better but we do not know. This quotation explains that they were both normal women
with loving and caring hearts but cousin Kate had the stronger and more loving upbringing, leaving
the cottage maiden to 'fend for herself' and brings herself up in the ways she feels right. Reviews
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would have “spit in his face” showing no remorse, no respect this is the peak of her anger in this
poem.
Even though the poems are written in different centuries and nowadays it may be more acceptable to
have a child out of wedlock, the fact remains that some women are still judged and treated as
outcasts. The following quotation portrays a mood of anger and hatred. She then goes on to talk
about peoples' opinion of her. 'The neighbours call you good and pure, call me an outcast thing'. They
are different in that the lord in “Cousin Kate” is very high class and powerful, yet the youth in “The
Seduction” is poorly educated and lower class. It is organised in this way in the later stages of the
poem to split it up into understandable sections. The maid becomes pregnant and has a child out of
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fate was they would probably have stayed single because people were so disgusted with them, not
had many friends and they would have been very poor. The maid feels angry with him as he rejected
her for Kate; the lord just cast the maid away. The lesson starts by asking students to consider typical
themes in poems about love and gives contextual details about Rossetti for a challenge task aimed at
higher ability students. This tells us that she now realises what has happened and wants to know why
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4.70 1165 reviews Not the right resource. The poem tells us that he led her there so they could not be
seen. Almost like a stranger “luring a child into a car” This is why I despise of this line. Further
more, both of the women have a child out of wedlock. The lord asked for Kate's hand in marriage
and she accepted. The rest of the stanza shows what she thinks Kate should have done. Before she
was pregnant she dreamt of holidays and teenage parties. The Lord's love towards the maiden was
not real, 'His plaything and his love'. 'Plaything' and 'love' are two very different contrasts with each
other. The cottage maiden was devastated that he had done that to her. She is happy with her friends
and is all together happy with her life. Because she was drunk she wasn’t in the right state of mind
so wasn’t thinking straight when she was supposedly falling in love with him. The mood in the poem
is grief-stricken and down as the cottage maiden is always speaking with a non-happy attitude until
the end where she becomes unconcerned about her cousin Kate’s fate with the lord as if that her fault
she picked that fate and she got what she deserves and that’s that which I think is a bit of a selfish
laid back attitude and isn’t right. Stanzas 2, 3, and 4 talk about how they met at the party and what
they talked about. You can change this and find out more by following this link Accept Cookies. In
conclusion, we can see that the poems are very similar in there themes as they are both about girls
that get seduced into having sex or a sexual relationship. The female roles are basically about the
women that have fallen for this wealthy Lords charm then the lord will use these girls for his
pleasure. The lord has power over women, in particular he uses his wealth and charm to seduce the
cottage maiden. This tells me that he was with her to make him look good; he doesn't care about her
feelings.
He tells her about football because he knows a lot about it and so shares all his knowledge in the
hope that he will look intelligent and so he will impress her. The maid feels that she has been spoilt
or at least tainted by the lord. The words are pleasant and they help build up a fairytale image. She
says she would’ve shrugged off his marriage proposal. She feels that is she had not been so gullible
and easy, it would have all been avoided. She has mixed feelings for her son, as she is ashamed of
him because she is not married to his father but also proud of him because he is hers. Eileen
McCauley writes “where a stranger could lead you to bright new worlds” the girl decides to believe
that the boy she meets is her stranger. Bundle Edexcel Conflict Poetry Comprehension Activity
Booklets. It shows how society rejected woman who had unlawful sex in earlier times; women were
judges and disowned by all people who knew them. People in those days would of crossed the road
if they had seen her coming, not looking or talking to her in any way. Women are no longer judged
or even looked down on by anyone. This resource hasn't been reviewed yet To ensure quality for our
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know if it violates our terms and conditions. She also rips her magazines and breaks her shoes as if
they have lied to her and she feels “cheated by the promise of it all”. The lord asked for Kate's hand
in marriage and she accepted. The only good thing that came out of this was the cottage maiden had
a child, 'Yet I've a gift you have not got.' and 'my fair-haired son'. He feels that because he is a lord
he can do what he wants when he wants. He comes across to the reader as a liar and a cheat - 'if he
had fooled not me but you'. The use of 'frightening scum' gives a very unpleasant image of the water.
The maiden talks about how Kate will fret that he cannot have children. “For all your clothes and
wedding ring” This tells us that for all the material items she has e.g. expensive clothes, rings, and
jewellery. The writer (McAuley) seems to criticise the girls behaviour, she makes out that the girl
deserves what happens. It might also mean that she was literally hardened in an emotionally way
where she was so used to wrok that she didn't need love and was 'contented' with just being with her
friends that worked with her. 'Why did a great lord find me out' gives us the impression that she's
doubtful as to why he picked her of all people. Gold is a symbol of wealth and riches, singing
represents happiness. We are also told that the boy sat down in the darkness. We also learn a lot
about the character of the boy in 'The Seduction'. It was seen to be unclean and impure if you were to
have sex before marriage. Registered in England and Wales, Company No. 7323662. It seems that the
Lord does not want to admit that the child is his, or does not know that he has a child, because at
the end of the poem it says, 'your father would give lands for one, to wear his coronet'. The maid's
feelings vary greatly through the poem, at first she feels excited and love struck with the lord. She’s
distraught over it as she rips up all of her “my guy” and “Jackie Collins” magazines and throws her
“white shoes at the wall” At this stage of the poem I honestly feel sorry for her. The poem tells us
that he led her there so they could not be seen.
The Seduction is written by Eileen McAuley and is based in the 1980’s in Blackpool. The lord then
left the maid, and married her cousin, Kate. The poem demonstrates how a man can love a woman,
then throw her away and move onto another as he pleases, and because he was a lord the cottage
maiden could not say a thing. We also learn a lot about the character of the boy in 'The Seduction'.
She also feels betrayed by the boy as he promised her that he would take her out sometime but he
left her and she didn’t see him after that. He used this, his power and his wealth against the maiden.
This tells us that now she has married the lord the neighbours respect her but have rejected the
cottage worker and have called her an outcast. This opening helps us know what life is like for the
main character before she meets the Lord. 'Not mindful I was fair' shows that she is carefree.
Activities across the booklets are as consistent, to provide an equal understanding of each poem, and
include (amongst many others). There is only one marriage in this poem and that is between cousin
Kate and the Lord to quote the poem “he bound you with his ring”. The Lord desires a son in order
to have an heir to his belongings. The next stanzas go on to talk about her family values. This means
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Mr Crawford Eng 2.84 89 reviews Not the right resource. The maid becomes pregnant and has a
child out of wedlock. She says she would’ve shrugged off his marriage proposal. In Eileen
McAuley’s time, it isn’t that bad because there are teenagers having babies all over the place. It is
also, more commonly, a symbol of peace and tranquility. She is now regretting the whole event and
knows that she fell for it all much too easily. Finally stanzas five and six talk about how the maid
feels she is better off than Kate and how she has her son. The different names used “an outcast
thing” used in the nineteenth century would be the equivalent to “slag” in the twentieth century
poem but is not just as brutal. Stanzas 2, 3, and 4 talk about how they met at the party and what they
talked about. She didn't have to have sex with him and although she liked him and it appeared that
he liked her she should have known better. The maid thinks the Lord is going to marry her but he
does not. Eileen McCauley writes “where a stranger could lead you to bright new worlds” the girl
decides to believe that the boy she meets is her stranger. However, the maid also feels quite proud
because she has a son and Kate does not, she is smug. The 1st, 2nd, 6th, 7th and 8th stanzas talk
about what happens after the party, at the Docks. She feels that the lord has taken away her life and
the fun she used to have with her friends. The verb “led” shows how the boy is in control of the girl;
he is leading her away from the busy city to a quiet place where no one will see them. Although I
wouldn’t choose it over an other really.
It's as if she wished he hadn't chosen her and is asking herself 'why did he pick me?'. The language
also helps to create and reflect how the girls are viewed by society. She’s distraught over it as she
rips up all of her “my guy” and “Jackie Collins” magazines and throws her “white shoes at the wall”
At this stage of the poem I honestly feel sorry for her. She was surprised and taken a back by the fact
that someone so great and powerful could be slightly interested in her, and so she automatically fell
in love with him. The lord abuses his power because he knows that the women cannot refuse him
because they work for him and would not refuse him because he is wealthy and they are living in a
time of bad poverty.The cottage maiden is feeling very hurt and bitter not only towards the Lord but
also to her Cousin Kate as they are related and she was with the lord first and is carrying his child.
According to the maiden, Kate’s love was not real. “O cousin Kate my love was true, your love was
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resources grouped together to teach a particular topic, or a series of lessons, in one place. She says it
would be better to starve yourself than to be pregnant and for everyone to make assumptions. I
found 'The Seduction' easier to understand and relate to because the language is more modern. He
gets her drunk, takes her down to the docks, and takes her virginity. While the lord is with the maid
he is still looking to replace her with someone he sees as better. The use of the world howl gives us
an understanding of how upset the maid is and how bad she feels. He then seduces her into having
sexual intercourse. She says that although she really loved the lord, Kate does not. The words “spit
into his face” give a sharp and clear image of revenge and hatred towards the lord. This wouldn't be
very unusual in today's society, so this somewhat dates the poem and allows the reader to assess the
date in which the poem was set. This tells us that the maid thinks Kate's love is temporary and fake.
The lord asked for Kate's hand in marriage and she accepted. Adjectives such as quiet, silver and
blind build up a picture of the setting. You automatically expect the father to be roughly the same
age as the mother, and I believe this is the case. As we know Cousin Kate does not know about the
affair with the cottage maiden, so therefore respects the lord. He can easily change her life by lifting
her out of her old one. He made her feel special and loved when infact all this was counterfeit love.
Just so that the vicious public couldn’t win one over her if you like. In the beginning of the poem the
girl is excited in meeting the boy. It tells about how even though the maiden was cheated and used
she still has the one thing that matters more than anything. Eventually she finds out that she is
pregnant (cousin Kate) but had to deal with the consequences all by herself. This could mean that
she may feel that if she had not have fell for him none of this would have happened, which in reality
is true. This is a complete resource with no additional work required from the teacher, enjoy. This
means she lost her virginity to him and is now known as dirty and impure.
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conditions. The lord doesn't care about anyone else's feelings; at least he didn't seem to care about
the maid. This is fairly unorganised, representing how unorganised the girls feelings are and how she
keeps looking back hoping to change the past. Despite the time period, teenage pregnancy in an
agricultural community is less expected and more frowned upon than a teenage pregnancy in a rural
area like Merseyside, Liverpool, where there is a high teenage pregnancy rate. Write a review Update
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maintain a critical style and develop an informed personal response use textual references, including
quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations.’ Plus many, many more activities. The tone of
'The Seduction' however, does seem to criticize the girl. The lord asked for Kate's hand in marriage
and she accepted. The language used is very early 19 th -20 th century; it gives the impression of
happiness leading to sadness. Society has change a lot over the last 150 years because now everyone
is treated as an equal and it doesn’t matter what religion, race or his or her class is, I am not saying
that stereotyping doesn’t happen as that will always be an ongoing factor of life. He also does the
same with Kate but she just goes with him for money nothing else. Our customer service team will
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her, it is written, 'the neighbours call you good and pure, call me an outcast thing'. The words “spit
into his face” give a sharp and clear image of revenge and hatred towards the lord. This tells me that
he might be a dropout and doesn't have very much to look forward to in life. The cottage maiden is
prepared to accept it but the sixteen year old is not. This brings into light the difference between
higher and lower class people. This shows that the lord didn't care about the maid. I find it much
easier to relate to 'The Seduction' as I can understand how it must feel to have a 'one night stand' and
then become pregnant. This goes to show that all the material things in life mean nothing when a
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reviews Not the right resource. There is also a colour activity where students are to identify devices
and they are welcome to annotate the effect of these since this is on an A3 page. Finally, Rossetti
writes, 'if he had fooled not me but you.' The crucial word in this stanza is 'fooled'. This is telling us
that the lord wants a son to inherit his wealth. Sometimes she seems to be jealous of Kate, 'You grew
more fair than I' and tries to compete with her, 'Yet I've a gift you have not got', trying to prove that
Kate can not have everything from her. The last stanza of the poem becomes more of revenge than
hatred. This helps us to understand just how upset the maid is, and how she sounds when she cries.
The lord has power over women; in particular he uses his wealth and charm to seduce the cottage
maiden. She has mixed feelings for her son, as she is ashamed of him because she is not married to
his father but also proud of him because he is hers. She feels that her life is now over after the one
dreadful event.

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