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Poetry Comparisons

Telephone Conversation
1. Themes: Relationships/Loneliness/Isolation
  1. Comparison 1: Hide And Seek
    1. HaS=narrative TC=story (third person)
    2. Both portray an event where experience gained
    3. Main speakers both experence isolation
  2. Comparison 2: War Photographer
    1. Back from War - alone with experience
    2. Caesura used
    3. Repetition (rule of 3)
  3. Comparison 3: A Mother In A...
    1. Helpless=poor child born into poverty (disadvantage)
    2. Metaphor comparisons
    3. Vivid imagery
Once Upon A Time
1. Themes: Childhood to adulthood/Loneliness in society/Change
  1. Comparison 1: Half Past Two
    1. Childhood, innocence, reminiscing
    2. Make up words 'Gettinguptime'
    3. Both start 'Once Upon'
  2. Comparison 2:Hide and Seek
    1. Both have a theme of loneliness
    2. Both start positive and end negative
    3. Titles symbolise a traditional childhood
  3. Comparison 3: Poem at 39
    1. Both look back at childhood
    2. Both envy the younger character
    3. one starts negative (PA39) and the other starts positive (OUAT)
War Photographer
1. Themes: War/Death/Suffering/Pain
  1. Comparison 1: A Mother...
    1. Have similar themes and religious ideas/imagery
  2. Comparison 2: Prayer Before...
    1. Ideas of pain
    2. Suffering in the world, turn to God
  3. Comparison 3: Do Not Go...
    1. Both have a regular structure
    2. Rhyme scheme despite negative and angry themes
The Tyger
1. Themes: Innocence VS experience/Religion/Fear
  1. Comparison 1: Piano
    1. Structure mirrors content
    2. Same AABB rhyme scheme
    3. Talks about childhood with linked ideas of innocence
  2. Comparison 2: Once Upon a Time
    1. Based on innocence and experience
    2. Symmetrical poems-innocence + experience reflect
    3. "they" and "thee", doesn't directly say who but reader can guess
  3. Comparison 3: A Mother...
    1. Religious imagery in both
    2. Innocence of child
    3. Both have fear within them
My Last Duchess
1. Themes: Death/Love/Loneliness
  1. Comparison 1: La Belle...
    1. Myth of many cultures traditional ballad
    2. Reminiscing (one more obvious), shows death
    3. Unrequited love
  2. Comparison 2: Sonnet 116
    1. Negative imagery
    2. Dramatic monologue (personal)
    3. Caesura (breaks rhyme)
  3. Comparison 3: Once Upon A Time
    1. Reminiscent of past
    2. Enjambment
    3. Stanza size mirrors differing ideas
A Mother In A Refugee Camp
1. Themes: Death/Childhood/Love/Loss
  1. Comparison 1: War Photographer
    1. AMIARC-current war WP-previous war
    2. Enjambment
    3. More sensual language
  2. Comparison 2: Prayer Before Birth
    1. Spoken from child's point of view
    2. Expects pain and suffering in PBB
    3. Spiritual (both) but PBB is less vivid
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
1. Themes: Death/Family relationships/Suffering
  1. Comparison 1: Piano
    1. Juxtaposition in both
    2. Negative
    3. Piano=innocence+experience DNGG=experience
  2. Comparison 2: A Mother...
    1. Both use powerful adjectives
    2. DNGG=dying old AMIARC=dying young
    3. Explicit death described
  3. Comparison 3: Remember
    1. Titles=imperitive verbs
    2. Both about realationships
    3. Both want to end the suffering
Remember
1. Themes: Death/Relationships/Love/Loss
  1. Comparison 1: Do Not Go...
    1. 2nd person pronoun
    2. Remember=positive Do Not Go...=negative
    3. Imperitive verbs
  2. Comparison 2: Poem at 39
    1. Remembering love
    2. Remember=short stanza 39=lots of stanzas
    3. Peaceful death
  3. Comparison 3: La Belle Dame...
    1. Amount of stanzas/structure
    2. Talks of the speakers experiences
    3. Intensity of love

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