English Poetry Comparison

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Comparing and contrasting pieces of work is a common assignment given in English classes but is yet one of the hardest assignments to do correctly. To compare two or more things is to list or talk about the similarities between the topics. But to contrast is to also compare but instead of comparing similarities, you are comparing differences. Comparing and contrasting two poems or any piece of English can be difficult because sometimes there can be a lot more differences than similarities or the other way around which can make it sound one sided. For this compare and contrast draft, I chose poems two and four to use as mine. I was able to find multiple similarities between “Spring and Fall” and “October” such as the way they were written and …show more content…
The biggest and most obvious part they had in common was that both titles of the poems are seasons. In my opinion, I think that the authors used seasons for the titles because it gives a sense of time which is mentioned in the poems. Another similarity between the poems is that in the text they both talk about how time needs to slow down which personally, I believe that as well. Examples of this in “Spring and Fall” is “with your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! As the heart grows older it will come to such sights colder” (5-7) and in “October” when it states “begin the hours of this day slow. Make the day seem to us less brief. Hearts not averse to being beguiled” …show more content…
The biggest difference that I noticed was that “Spring and Fall” had a named character in the story but “October” doesn’t. At the very beginning of “Spring and Fall” it says, “to a young child Margaret, are you grieving over Goldengrove unleaving?” (1-3). This clearly states who the poem is about but in “October” it never mentions a person and especially not a person with a name. Another difference I picked up on was the tone of the poems. In “Spring and Fall” it seemed to be more upset because Margaret is upset for humanity but in “October” it is sad instead of upset because they want the days to slow down so they can enjoy more of
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