Comparing and Contrasting. Nettles, Harmonium and Praise Song For My Mother.

The final stanza revolves around the nettles retorting to the father’s attacks. In the first line, the father is shown to give the nettles a funeral. This shows the father ending the troubles caused by the nettles. With effective choice of words, the poet describes how the ’sun’ and ‘rain’, representative of nature and its power, finally help the nettles grow. The word ‘recruits’ shows the enemy army was returning and regrouping. Furthermore, the word ‘tall’ depicts the nettles being stronger and healthier than before and their readiness for the battle. The final line states that the son would be hurt by the nettles soon and again. While problems won’t wane with time, despite all of the father’s efforts, the son will have to find a way to learn to adapt to the renewed struggles in his life.

You are to create a representation of TWO of the poems studied in class and

In each of the poems, “Thanatopsis”, “Dust in the Wind” and “Don’t Fear the Reaper” they are mostly meaning death. The main point each poem is making is to live life to it’s fullest and not to fear death.

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.

¨Those Winter Sundays¨ by Robert Hayden and ¨Snapping Beans¨ by Lisa Parker are two different narrative poems that share the same theme. Similarly both poems consist of a speaker being affected by the relationship they have with their elders. In ¨Those Winter Sundays¨ the speaker tells us about his hardworking father who takes care of his kids even though he may come off as a harsh father. The speaker of ¨Snapping Beans¨ is a granddaughter who discusses about the change that she is going through but is afraid to tell the person that raised her. Therefore this essay compares the two poems with respect to the speaker's feelings and morals.

9) Identify the conceit in the poem. What two things are being compared? Identify one line that demonstrates this comparison and explain, in your own words, what it means. Knitting with yarn and the death of his wife. “Then mine apparell shall display before yee 5.That I am Cloathd in Holy robes for glory.” I would say this means that the memories of his wife and how things came to be is held on his back like a rock and he wants to pray about it and want god to let him know its ok.

“Those Winter Sunday” and “First Lesson” have many similarities and differences. They both speak of two different learning experiences. They both included a loving father; although the father’s show their love differently. In “Those Winter Sundays” the son of a hard working and loving father learns that his dad may not of expressed his love verbally , but instead with actions. In “First Lesson” we she a dad teaching his dauer how to float, and how it’s ok to take a break. Throughout the poems the others use theme, tone, and figurative language to reveal the similarities and differences of the two poems.

With close reference to the ways each poet uses language, compare and contrast what the speakers in the poems say about rural life. You should include relevant contextual material. Which poem do you find more interesting? Give your reasons.

Poetry is a powerful tool used by many writers who strive to emphasize important messages through the use of literature. Poetry is powerful because it focuses on the intense emotions expressed in writing with examples of diction, connotation, rhyming and villanelles. It does not merely bombard readers with facts or information, but it does allow the reader to explore its ambiguous interpretations. Although it may be very difficult to understand, poetry is meant to help readers escape into a world of imagery where they can interpret and take away what is useful. After analyzing many poems, two poems that seem to compare and contrast well are “The Cow” by Andrew Hudgins and “Do Not Go Gentle into The Good Night”

The third stanza of the poem expresses the emotional connection between the mother and the child having grown stronger. “O node and focus of the world” (11). Her child is the center of her world. This symbolizes just how important her child is to her, it was become the “focus” of her life. “I hold you deep within that well/ you shall escape and not escape-/ that mirrors still your sleeping shape;/ that nurtures still your crescent cell” (12-13). The “well” represents the woman’s womb that molds and “nurtures” that child while it sleeps. The part that speaks about the child escaping refers to the child no longer being inside of the mother yet always being a part of her. The mother will always have an emotional connection to her child.

A sestina is a fixed form of six stanzas that end with an envoi, an address to an imagined or real subject. This particular form of “Sestina” by Elizabeth Bishop takes you through one particular afternoon of a grandmother and her grandchild. Though the poem itself is ambiguous, Bishop foreshadows the grandmother’s demise throughout the entirety of the poem. The five words almanac, grandmother, tears, stove, and house are used at the end of each line for the six stanzas and envoi. They are clues as to figuring out the meaning of the poem. However, they are not the only clues as symbolism is the main usage of figurative language. The speaker is assumed to be Elizabeth Bishop but even she has written the poem in a way that reflects that of an outside observer to obscure the poem even further.

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

“Work is a duty”: Compare and contrast two poems you have studied in the light of this statement.

A title is the first thing a reader notices about a poem. It sets out the expectations of the reader. The author utilizes the title to give the reader the initial impression they want interpreted. This title can explain exactly what the poem is about, not relate to the poem in a direct way, or be ambiguous in its meaning. The title is one of the most important elements of a poem; it is the poems introduction to the world. With this introduction having been made, the reader examines the poem with the expectation of relating it directly to the title.

The other poem, which also had same title, was conducted both similar and different ways. The first poem’s narrator was a child labourer, but he could keep his innocence despite all negative conditions that created by an industrialized society. But second poem composed with two speaker, the first one was an adult who questioned the child “"Where are thy father and mother? Say!"—“(3) And the actual speaker who was a little child, also a chimney sweeper. Unlike the speaker of the first poem, the speaker of the second poem was more serious and had adult like tone. The 7th line “They clothed me in the clothes of death,” (7) used a serious word like “death” which seemed inappropriate for a child.