Poem comparison

“My City” and “Famous” Comparison The poem titled “My City”, and the song “Famous”, are both works that have a similar topic to one another. Both express a reflective tone, and make the reader think back on their life to what they want to remember or be remembered for. The overall ideas of the poem and song go together well, and both do a fantastic job of expressing these ideas. While they are both written with much thought and precision, there are differences that can be found. These differences

Waking” by Theodore Roethke are two poems that relate directly to the speaker. Although both poems share this similarity, the way in which both works or literature are constructed are vastly different. Plath uses visual imagery and poetical tercets to show the pain and suffering of the speaker in her poem, while Roethke uses the musical Villanelle and synesthesia to create his picture of the speaker’s inner thoughts and a sense of awakening. When reading the poem “Lady Lazarus” for the first time

“…Why is it / just as we begin to go / they begin to arrive…” (lines 4-6). Olds takes on the voice of this despondent woman in her poem “35/10,” using rich, honest language and metaphoric comparisons to communicate observations about the cycle of life and the pattern of replacement. In the main body of her poem, Olds lists a sequence of three key metaphoric comparisons between the woman and her daughter’s changing bodies. Both characters are experiencing small “previews” of their futures through developmental

metaphor, juxtaposition, and point of view to describe the writing process in comparison of building a house, which shows that Oliver sees poetry as something that involves mental labor which is a different challenge than physical labor . Through the use of extended metaphor, Mary Oliver is allowed to express both the mentality and physicality when writing a poem, which is able to show the differences and similarities by comparison. The extended metaphor works to compare the process of writing poetry to

Relationships, Comparisons, Assumptions, and What Lies Beneath As time passes in a relationship, it is inevitable that confrontations are bound to occur. Whether small disagreements created from minor issues, to mediocre arguments based on daily matters, to serious incidents that can reflect relationship taboos, it is a couple’s perception and understanding of each other that can strengthen or weaken their union. The poem “How It Will End” by Denise Duhamel portrays two couples involved in similar

Sonnets written in Elizabethan England were usually after Petrarch’s works. Petrarch was a man who was in love with a girl name Laura de Noves. He wrote 366 poems about his love for this woman from the year 1327 all the way until 1368. His works were very stereotypical love poems that included lines like, “She ruled in beauty o'er this heart of mine, / A noble lady in a humble home, / And now her time for heavenly bliss has come, / Tis I am mortal proved, and she divine.” Petrarch wrote in such

William Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 130’ and John Milton’s ‘Methought I saw my Late Espouséd Saint’ are both sonnets that adapt the Petrarchan tradition of the donna angelica. The poems both use the traditional sonnet structure, use imagery to describe a specific kind of beauty and were both written in the Early modern period when the Petrarchan tradition was popular. In spite of this, both ‘Sonnet 130’ and ‘Methought I Saw My Late Espouséd Saint’ avert from the Petrarchan tradition of donna angelica with

compare two or more poems in your exam. You could be asked to write about the presentation of themes, people or places and the importance of language. A good comparative essay is like a multi-layered sandwich: • BREAD - A new point. • FILLING A - How one of your chosen poems illustrates this point. • FILLING B - How your other chosen poem illustrates this point. • BREAD - Your conclusion about this point. This is what the examiners call cross-referencing - you talk about both poems all the way through

In 1978 she published the poem “Alone”, where the speaker embraces the problem she notices in her society. One can assume that Maya’s lyrical poem, expresses her own feelings regarding loneliness. Her poem highlights how wealth is not a cure for solidarity. In the poem Alone, Maya Angelou utilizes literary devices to emphasize the negative effects of a materialistic society and the importance of having the right amount of people in your life. Through her use of comparisons, Maya establishes the central

things, while at the center of the dreams of many, are often compared to the grandest things in life. The allusion in the poems “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell, “Peace” by George Herbert, and “Hymn to God, My God, In My Sickness” by John Donne most accurately craft the author’s purpose of the need for love, peace, and acceptance from God. Since Andrew Marvell bases his poem, To His Coy Mistress, around his love for his mistress, he begins to compare the extent by which he is willing to fight