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Compare And Contrast Photograph And 1954

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In the Thomas Hardy poem "The Photograph" the main theme that the speaker is trying to display is power, and pain. While in the Patricia Young poem "Photograph, 1954" the main theme would be relationships between father and daughter, pain, and the feeling of being trapped. These two poems to have some major similarities and differences with the use of a photograph as the central image. By close examination you can point out that there are many similarities but as well some differences between the two poems "The Photograph" and "Photograph, 1954", and how they use the photograph as the central image, Theses similarities between "The Photograph" and "Photograph, 1954" include their idea to use the photograph as the central image. While their …show more content…

Some of the similarities would be how they both display relationships between different people, for the poem "Photograph, 1958" the relationship would be between the four year old young child and the father. While for "The Photograph" the relationship is between a man and a women. The relationship's can easily relate to one another because they both are somebody relationship's can easily relate to one another because they both are somebody who is stronger and is acting violent to the other in the relationship. They use the photograph to represent the relationship between these people by having you picture the young girl being afraid of her father as he rips the stove out and when the man is burning the picture of a women to has great power over him. Which brings me to the next thing that these two poems are similar in, they both display power and how one person has more power over how the other feels. This is displayed when the man is burning the picture in "That Photograph" and at the end he feels bad about it because he would not want the women burning a picture of him as he did to her. It is also displayed in "Photograph, 1958" by having the father have more power over how the young girl feels and how everything he does effects how she feels in some way. The main difference would be how they describe the image to the reader, as well as how the reader would picture that image. These differed in a way that in "The Photograph" Hardy made you start off with a dark picture by having the first like be "The flame crept up the portrait line by line" (1) making you think the poem was about someone who wasn’t happy and was in a dark place in their life. While in "Photograph, 1958" Young made you start off in a happy place and made you picture a young girl and a father playing checkers which

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