Comparing Poems 'And Driving Late At Night'

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.

Right off the bat, we can tell that this poem is based on the free verse type of poetry, as it doesn’t have any particular rhyming scheme. It only occasionally contained half-rhymes, such as the words “road” and “dead”. Stafford was known for not having a rhyme scheme in his poems, although occasionally in a few of his poems, he would like to include it. Seeing as though there was no regular rhyme scheme, we are also able to tell that the poem does in fact have a irregular meter, meaning there is little to no rhyme between the lines. Now we venture off into diction, which stands for the choice of words while writing to convey a typical mood. While reading the poem, we can see the speaker trying to paint a picture of a gloomy night. He demonstrates this by saying: “traveling through the dark”, “that road is narrow; to swerve might make more dead” and finally, “then pushed her over the edge into the river.” Stafford wanted to make us feel the same stress the speaker was in at the time, by painting this picture, so we the readers can envision what is actually happening. If we move on to imagery, we can see that when the speaker states that the doe was large in the belly, inferring that there is a unborn fawn in the deer. This was an example of fine imagery, to which the speaker wanted to demonstrate a vivid idea

The poems are similar in the sense that they both talk about love, but they are different in their contexts of love, Dawn Revisited being about the feelings towards her loved ones and at the sight of dawn and Carpe Diem being about the love felt towards another

In Geary Hobson’s poem “Deer Hunting”, very different types of diction are used. “Deer Hunting I” has a “redneck” and arrogant diction. “Deer Hunting II” has a peaceful and appreciative diction. Hobson uses contrasting dictions because he wants to emphasize that the way the men hunt in “Deer Hunting I” is disrespectful to nature. “Deer Hunting I” and “Deer Hunting II” are different and alike in several ways.

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.

The two poems are similar in their corresponding feeling of dread for death. Using diction,

Both of the poems have similar themes throughout their poems as well. Although they are expressed differently they both share a theme dealing with time moving by quickly and to live a life with no regrets.

One main way the theme of death is illustrated is through symbolism of the deer, canyon, and river. The deer is a roadblock which must be dealt with before the man can continue on his journey. He cannot simply push death to the side of the road. Here, the deer would rot and fester; instead, as Stafford states in the first stanza, " it is usually best to roll them into the canyon" (line 3). The way to deal with this problem is to discard of it immediately and to not hesitate at all. Literally, this is true for the safety of other motorists. Furthermore, it is necessary to deal properly with this problem so one can continue on their path in life. The canyon, and river at the bottom, therefore come to symbolize the depth of our individual souls; we push problems into our souls, and slowly deal with them. By doing this, our problems and death, may be symbolically washed away.

With this use of the first-person viewpoint, both poets depict what the speakers see, hear, feel, and their internal thoughts. Therefore, the audience can have a clearer picture of the speakers’ intentions and better understand the poems. Beside the similarity that both poems share, several differences can also be noted. In “Traveling through the Dark,” the poet depicts a vivid image by appealing to the senses of sight, hearing, and touch; however, the writer of “Woodchucks” portrays a more gruesome image to show the death of the animals. In order to appeal to sight, Stafford first describes the dead doe to convey a scary and sympathetic atmosphere to the audience (I. 1).

T.S Eliot’s poem, “The winter evening settles down” is a short, simple to read poem with several different examples of imagery. Eliot uses descriptive words, for instance, “withered leaves”, “broken blinds”, and “lonely cab-horse” (lines 7-10). He paints an extremely bleak image of a town that seems to be deserted of people. The tone of the poem plays hand-in-hand with the imagery used. This town is an unpleasant place where it has seemed to be neglected for some years now. Eliot’s use of imagery takes the reader to this deserted, torpid place; however, at the same time, his goal is to bring the life back into this grim town.

The element of imagery is important in drawing the reader into the poem. The descriptive word “reflective” creates the vivid image of the deer’s eyes (2). The word “reflective” is used to explain how the light from the vehicle reflects back to the driver as the light hits the deer’s eyes. The deer’s eyes are always the first part of them to be seen when driving in the

On lines 8 and 9, when Stafford wrote “my fingers touching her side brought me to the reason-her side was warm; her fawn laying there waiting, alive, still, never to be born” in a warm, gentle way. This sense of warmth and gentleness represents the life of the fawn. Stafford captivates the audience by showing how a decision can go from being easy to extremely difficult. When the driver first sits eyes upon the deer, his first reaction is to “roll them into the canyon” (line 3). Stafford’s use of language with the dashes portrays the readers thoughts.

There are similarities in these two poems such as the theme and the observentness of the narrator. Both of the poems themes involve death. In ?I heard a Fly buzz when I died?, the poet writes, ? And then the Windows failed ? and then I could not see to see- ", which means that the narrator?s eyes would not open no more; they had died. In ?Because I could not stop for Death? it shows the theme

The poem, “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass,” by Emily Dickinson is a collaboration of fear and intrigue. The poem is presented through a young boy as he makes his way through cool and damp grassland during the afternoon. The issue the young boy must deal with is the unwelcome encounter with a snake. From the first glimpse of the slithering snake the tone of the poem is set: an uneasiness mood followed by persistent fear. The combination of external conflict and dexterous imagery create the atmosphere of this poem.

When considering the structure of the poems, they are similar in that they are both written loosely in iambic pentameter. Also, they both have a notable structured rhyme scheme.