Poetry Comparison Essay

Not all poems are created alike. Many are similar, but not the same. Some are long, some are short.

Some rhyme, some don't. 

Working Together. 

The Place Where We Are Right. 

Both similar but not alike. 

Working Together. 

David Whyte. 

People coming together. 

For a common cause. 

One talking to the mass. 

Looking to make change. 

Hoping to open eyes. 

The Place Where We Are Right

Yehuda Amichia

A thousand memories. 

All coming together. 

One recollecting. 

Looking to the past. 

Back to the changing days. 

Two poems. 

Two authors. 

Not the same, but similar. 

Descriptive language. 

Similar audience. 

Tones alike. 

Never the same, but similar. 

The love song of J Alfred Prufrock

Time plays a huge role in this poem. Prufrock seems to be running out of time throughout the entire poem. Time continues to tick away until it seems that he doesn't have much time left to turn his indecisiveness into confidence. 

Elliot alludes to hamlet and the "eternal Footman". This is significant because Elliot uses Hamlet as a contrast. He's saying that Prufrock isn't royalty unlike Hamlet. Although hamlet has to make a choice it's a very different one than the one that Prufrock seems to be making. 

The very last stansa when elliot talks about waves. He uses waves to describe the features of the old man. To me it seemed to be the end of not only the poem but much of the Prufrocks hope. 

Poetry Remix

We shape our self

To fit this world

And by the world

Are shaped again.

The visible 

And the invisible

Working together 

In common cause,

To produce

The miraculous.

I am thinking of the way

The intangible air

Passed at speed

Round a shaped wing

Easily

Holds our weight.

So may we, in this life

Trust

To those elements

We have yet to see

Or imagine, 

And look for the true

Shape of our own self, 

By forming it well

To the great

Intangible about us.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gbrbUfYSt0E

Tone

The authors attitude towards the characters, subject, and audience

Poetry notes

Medium and formatting matters. 

Poetry begins with motion. 

Iambic pentameter: 5 measured feet two times. Sounds like a beating heart. 

Shakespeare honors main characters by writing their lines in iambic pentameter and insignificant characters in prose.