Comparing Poems 'A Blessing' By Linda Hogan

but she got up and went under the porch. She doesn 't like it when I 'm acting weird. I 'm failing as a dog when my own kind rejects me” (Harrison). From both poems we see how at the beginning of the poems our main characters have different views and actions towards their respective animals but in the end both have the same mindset as they both care about animals and how they are involved with them.

The two poems “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe and the poem, “i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)” by E E Cummings share the same similarities because they both have the same theme of love. In the poem “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe, the author writes the poem in a very overwhelming and emotional way. In this poem, Poe talks about losing a loved one and having that person taken away from them. Even though the poem is very gruesome and mentions death, it still is very powerful due to the theme of love. In a passionate and determined tone the author states, “But our love was stronger… Nor the demons down under the sea/can ever dissever my soul from the soul/of the beautiful Annabel Lee” (Poe 27, 31-33). In the poem “i carry your

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

When humans and nature come together, they either coexist harmoniously because nature's inhabitants and humans share a mutual respect and understanding for each other, or they clash because humans attempt to control and force their ways of life on nature. The poems, "The Bull Moose" by Alden Nowlan, "The Panther" by Rainer Maria Rilke, "Walking the Dog" by Howard Nemerov, and "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop, describe what happens when humans and nature come together. I believe that when humans and nature come together they either clash and conflict because individuals destroy and attempt to control nature, which is a reflection of their powerful need to control themselves, or humans live peacefully with nature because not only do they

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. Good morning Ms Linton and students, today I will be informing you on why you must choose these two poems for the poetry speaking contest. The poems I have chosen are ‘The Man from Ironbark’, by Banjo Patterson as well as ‘He Started the Cycling Craze’ by myself. Narratives help the readers enjoy and understand poetry as it is a way the poets can connect to their readers by using storylines that may relate to them or something that they enjoy.

poem it says, “…and looking down into…” as if to say that the Bin Men

In the poem “A Blessing,” James Wright analyzes the relationship between human beings and nature through the descriptive explanation of an encounter between his friend and himself and two Indian horses. He shows that although we are able to relate and interact with the animals we don't have the ability to join them or as Wright puts it: “break into blossom” (26-27). Wright uses imagery and personification to describe the nature he witnesses as he escapes from the stress of human life. The ponies in this poem are personified by comparing them to human beings, mainly through the description of their emotions. This personification lessens the gap between the author and the horses and separates him from civilization represented by the highways

There are many people who travel a distance in life to find the path they should take or to remember the path they once took. In the poem “The Path Not Taken,” by Robert Frost and the short story "I Used to Live Here Once" by Jean Rhys there are many similarities and differences. The authors’ use of describing a path helps them personify life’s journeys and self-reflection.

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

two poems are not as widely anthologized, but are thematically similar in the way Hughes expresses the disparity between

In the poems “Traveling Through the Dark” and “Woodchucks” man must make a decision about nature in the most inconvenient ways. In “Traveling Through the Dark” the narrator is faced with, literally, a life or death situation, whereas in “Woodchucks” the narrator is faced under the Darwinian belief about killing. Both poems reveal the interpersonal relationship between man and animal as well as the moral dilemma that man faces with nature. However, through the use of narration, vivid imagery, and personification, the poets show one speaker’s sympathetic attitude towards the animals while the other speaker has an adversarial attitude toward them.

In “A Blessing”, James Wright creates the impression that he is fond of animals, such as Indian ponies. Not only that, he also paints himself as a bit of a farm boy or a person who loves the countryside, and puts himself in nature. Peter Stitt, a literature professor at Gettysburg College, comments in a book, The Heart of Life, about James Wright: “He sees himself surrounded by a world so entirely hostile that writing poetry becomes a sort of step sideways into a dimension of beauty, rather than wrestling with ugliness” (113). One easily understands this in the lines, “Twilight bounds softly on the grass/ And the eyes of those two Indian ponies/ Darken with kindness/ They have come gladly out of the willows/ To welcome my friend and me” (Wright 2-6).

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.

Poems are an enigma to me. They are very simple yet hard to understand. Once I have fully understood a piece of poetry, I can appreciate fully. I have taken interest in two poems we have studied this week. The two poems I took great interest in this week were “Donne’s Holy Sonnet 10” and “Donne’s Holy Sonnet 14”. Both Sonnets deal with the speaker’s faith. Sonnets dealing with religion are much more intriguing than ones about love and adoration to me. I feel a deep connection with religious poem as they invoke an inner conversation within myself.

The poem “How Do I Love Thee”, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed”, by Edna Vincent Millay are both well-known poems that both have themes of love. (LIT, Kirszner & Mandell, Pg. 490). In both poems the poet helps the reader experience a lot of emotion with the use of certain words. There are speakers in both poems. In Mrs. Browning’s poem, the speaker is undefined, leaving open that the speaker could be a he or she. Millay’s poem which is written in first person, the speaker is more defined leading the reader to believe it is a she who is talking about love in the past tense. Both poems are sonnets written with fourteen lines, and written in Italian style. When comparing these poems we will be looking at the use of rhyme scheme and metaphors and how they were used to express emotions in these two sonnet poems.