Comparison of Two Poems There are similarities and differences in the poems For My Daughter written by Weldon Kees, and Her Kind written by Anne Sexton, although reading the two poems at first it is hard to distinguish in what ways the two compare in being but there are a few key important factors both poems have similarities in. For My Daughter, and Her Kind, both 20th century poems that both use females in their poems. The biggest difference in the females how old they are, and how they are portrayed. Her Kind states that the female in her Poem is a woman, who is practicing witch craft in the middle of the night, while For My Daughter uses a young girl “these miniature hands” and “skinny legs” suggesting a younger girl that is dead. …show more content…
How the young girl dies is unclear, but the poem suggests that she was either drowned, or she was poisoned by her mother. While Sextons’ poem is about a woman who is a witchery, and magic “I have gone out a possessed witch/……./ dreaming evil, I have done my hitch” This poem also suggests the woman being burned “”where your flames still bite my thigh/……/a woman like that is not afraid to die.” Paragraph 3 lines 4 and 6. The two poems both use nature elements in their poems Her Kind uses nature in a more mystical way, Sexton described the night breeze with black and haunting by finding a cave in the middle of the woods that was warm and had the supply to cook for “worms and the elves”. Kees uses nature in a much grimmer fashion, how cold the wind was, describing the seaweed in her dead daughter’s hands, the green slime that was on her legs, and how “speculations sour in the
Therefore, one can see that these poems although similar in their title and central image of the star differ in their themes, form and treatment of the author's ideas.
It is often common to have an author or the writer of a certain poem write about similar topics and also reflect the same stylistic characters among his or her poems. In Peter Meinke’s two poems, titled Untitled and Advice to my son, he created them both using a specific tone and the same subject to create different themes. Both of these poems also included some of the important elements of poetry.
Two well regarded and recognized poets, Maya Angelou and Alice Walker, wrote lots of different renowned poetry that is appreciated for its beauty and its truth. Both poets are African American woman, although in different times, many of their words rang true to one other. Their work can be compared and contrasted by understanding the poems as two separate pieces of work, and then looking at how each are similar and different in their own respects.
¨If¨ by Rudyard Kipling and ¨Girl¨ by Jamaica Kincaid are both letters to a child written by their parents in the form of a poem. In the letters the parents set expectations the child is expected to follow in the future. They are very similar with some differences. The goal of this essay is to compare and contrast the two texts.
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.
To conclude, “Daystar” and “To a Daughter Leaving Home”, both shared various similarities and differences regarding symbolism and mood throughout both poems. It was easily seen that even in general societal time periods, the mood of “To a Daughter Leaving Home” was very common. Though, in “Daystar” a lot of the responsibilities of a mother was leased over the years and I believe that more roles in the household are now equal. Poetry in these contexts allow the readers to realize the reality of life taken from a parent’s perspective and maybe some of the changes that it has took over the years. I personally enjoyed reading both poems, because it not only gave me the real life outlook of parenthood, but it shows me how my parents view me and
Interestingly, the two also had numerous differences. The first poem I encountered was "The Sick Rose" written by William Blake in 1794. Soon after, I read "Fog" (1916) by Carl Sandburg and I began to notice an exciting connection filled with various exceptions of chief differences. Although the poems were written more than a century apart from each other, after rereading them numerous times, they left me with an unimaginable amount of thinking and writing ground.
In both of these stories there are certain characteristics of females that are the same, they are inner strength, obedience, honor and respect, the good of the family is better than the good of the individual.
This is the main similarity we can see in their poetry. However this is also where they differ as well, in their exact relationship with God. Bradstreet first found herself before realizing her love for God. This was probably due to her being well educated and independent, she really was the first feminist to hit the world. Bradstreet found God in nature a lot of the times and expressed that in her poem ‘Contemplation’
The narrator reveals that “I have no daughter”. I desire none” (14). This sudden twist contradicts the previous context created earlier in the poem, shifting the audience from a single daughter to her entire would-be generation. Therefore, the narrator’s imagined daughter is a synecdoche, as the one daughter stands for her whole age group.
Comparing poems A Parental Ode to My Son Aged Three Years and Five Months, Catrin, and For Heidi With Blue Hair
...re many similarities when it comes to technique, characterization, themes, and ideologies based on the author's own beliefs and life experiences. However, we also see that it appears the author herself often struggles with the issue of being herself and expressing her own individuality, or obeying the rules, regulations and mores of a society into which she was born an innocent child, one who by nature of her sex was deemed inferior to men who controlled the definition of the norms. We see this kind of environment as repressive and responsible for abnormal psyches in the plots of many of her works.
During the early seventeenth century, poets were able to mourn the loss of a child publicly by writing elegies, or poems to lament the deceased. Katherine Philips and Ben Jonson were two poets who wrote the popular poems “On the Death of My Dearest Child, Hector Philips”, “On My First Son”, and “On My First Daughter” respectively. Although Philips and Jonson’s elegies contain obvious similarities, the differences between “On the Death of My Dearest Child” and “On My First Son” specifically are pronounced. The emotions displayed in the elegies are very distinct when considering the sex of the poet. The grief shown by a mother and father is a major theme when comparing the approach of mourning in the two elegies.
The similarities of both stories can be read as we go along each sentence, except, for the particular that each of the authors depict in each of their stories. Both women seem to be around the same age. They both suffer from a mental illness, and as we can read in both stories, no one seems to be concern with the well-being of either woman. The other characters in the stories tend to ignore the symptoms that each of the woman are showing. Another similarity is that both woman are driven to their psychological state by someone that they look up to. In ‘A Rose for Emily”, it is her father who keeps her isolated from the world, as for in “The Yellow Wallpaper” it is the husband.
Both poems where written in the Anglo-Saxton era in Old English and later translated into English. As well as both poems being written in the same time period, they are both elegiac poems, meaning they are poignant and mournful.