Comparing Texts
Structure
Imagery
Themes
Tone
Language
Oxymoron
Death
Nostalgia
Celebratory
Religious
Fearful
Piano
discrimination
Poem at 39
Loss
Identity
Half-past Two
Half Caste
Search for my Tongue
Positive
Remember
Negative
Do not go gentle into that good night
Angry
Poem at 39
Form
Remember
Metre
Search for my tongue
Rhyme scheme
Do not go gentle into that good night
A lack of
A lack of
Half caste
Half Past Two
Piano
Blessing
Search for my tongue
Key Ideas to Remember
poem at 39
optimistic
blessing
Sometimes a lack of something could be used to compare 2 poems. For example, if a poem has a lack of imagery, and we are comparing it to a poem with imagery in every line, we could compare how this separates these poems and the effects it creates on the reader.
remember
half caste
Connotations
Extended Metaphor
Simile
Rhyming couplets
piano
remember
Make sure that we are not just discussing the themes and meanings and that we are branching out and looking at the poems as a whole, discussing the structure, the tone, the imagery and the language as well as any other relevant points
Don't look just at the similarities, but compare the differences between the 2 poems
Blessing
Free verse
Half caste
Poem at thirty nine
Sonnet
Remember
villanelle
accepting
remember
poem at 39
Do not go gentle into that good night
Repetition
tercets (3 line stanzas)
Half past two
Do not go gentle into that good night
No rhyme scheme
Iambic
No metre
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