Comparing A London fete and Composed Upon Westminster Bridge

It is evident through both poems that Dawe believes the events in these poems are an injustice and he disagrees with these events; this is heard through the melancholic, sad tone that is apparent in both poems. He uses this sad tone to persuade the reader to disagree with what has happened. The poem “Katrina” uses many metaphors to create imagery, which is also another technique in the poem. One example of the use of metaphor would be “suspended between earth and sky”, this line is a metaphor for life and it signifies the suspense as to whether Katrina will live or die as well as providing imagery to the reader. Similarly, the poem “A Victorian Hangman Tells His Love” in

The poem opens with a forest at dusk and Norah Jones’s lyrics begin. The forest is seen at dusk because this time in a day can represent loneliness. The sun “abandons” the Earth and rids it of warm light giving off feeling of deprivation. As Jones sings, “I waited 'til I saw the sun I

Not only do these poems share differences through the speakers childhood, but also through the tones of the works.

Even so, both poems have a deeper

Prompt: Read the following two poems very carefully, noting that the second includes an allusion to the first. Then write a well-organized essay in which you discuss their similarities and differences. In your essay, be sure to consider both theme and style.

In this piece of writing I will be comparing and contrasting 3 poems. Which are ‘Praise Song for my mother’, ‘Harmonium’ and ‘Nettles.

“Sunshine seemed like gold,” (line 4) and “Whole damn world’s turned cold,” (line 5). The poet

In the poem and parody the narrator was mourning over Lenore, his wife, because she had died, and said that his books would never be able to make him feel better about it. In the parody and in the poem the rustling of his purple curtains scared him, but in the poem he never said that he got as scared as the narrator did in the parody. In the poem when it says “...each separate dying ember wrought its

In today’s modern view, poetry has become more than just paragraphs that rhyme at the end of each sentence. If the reader has an open mind and the ability to read in between the lines, they discover more than they have bargained for. Some poems might have stories of suffering or abuse, while others contain happy times and great joy. Regardless of what the poems contains, all poems display an expression. That very moment when the writer begins his mental journey with that pen and paper is where all feelings are let out. As poetry is continues to be written, the reader begins to see patterns within each poem. On the other hand, poems have nothing at all in common with one another. A good example of this is in two poems by a famous writer by

. . should burn and rave at the close of day”(2). This means that old men should fight when they are dying and their age should not prevent them from resisting death. Another example of personification in the poem is “Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay”(8). This line personifies the men’s frail deeds by saying that they could have danced. This means that the potential actions of the men could have flourished and contributed greatly to their lives. The metaphor “. . . words had forked no lightning. . .”(5) is about how the men had done nothing significant with their lives. They had not achieved anything great or caused a major change. The simile “Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay” is about how even grave and serious men will fight against death for as long as they can. Another notable example of figurative language within the poem is “. . . blinding sight”(13). This oxymoron details how the men can see very well and it is very obvious to them that they will die soon, but they know that they can control how they will leave this world. There is an abundance of imagery within this poem, a few examples of which are “. . . danced in a green bay”(8), and “. . . caught and sang the sun in flight”(10) . These examples of imagery are both appealing to the sense of sight by using descriptive words such as “Green” and “danced” in the first example and words such as “caught” and “flight” among others. The second example also appeals to the sense of sound by

significance of this section in the poem is the underlying relationship between what the narrater

The background picture of the wintery weather describes the type of environment that the poem takes

Therefore we have two poems which are deliberately changing their structure from the norm in order to create effect. However, these effects have totally different intentions, which lead to the end of the similarities and the first of many differences between the two poems.

In this compare and contrast essay I will compare four poems in detail and mention two in the passing to find similarities and differences. The poems and sonnets I have chosen to compare are ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and ‘My Last Duchess’ by Robert Browning and Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare

for the whole poem which he compares his love as a summer’s day. In lines 5-6 we see another