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Compare 'The Planners' to 'The City Planners' - Coggle…
Compare 'The Planners' to 'The City Planners'
Similarities
Sarcastic Tone
"Knock off useless blocks "
"The driveways neatly sidestep hysteria"
Both criticise some aspect of modernisation
Both are worried about the environment.
"even the seas draw back"
"gradual as a glaciers... nobody notices"
use alliteration to emphasise views
"dental dexterity"
"pedantic rows... planted sanitary trees"
Both show contempt for planners
Both mock excessive perfection of urban planning
"The country wears perfect rows of shining teeth"
"The roofs all display the same slant of avoidance"
Differences
'The Planners'
Concerned of the relentless development Singapore
"They build and will not stop"
The poet is also concerned with the destruction of history
"They erase the flaws, the blemishes of the past."
Takes place in singapore
The planners referred to impersonally as 'they'
'The City Planners'
Focuses on criticising
the bleakness and superficiality of modern living.
'planted sanitary trees'
Takes place in an urban suburb
In the city planners, they are described with 'insane faces', as they plan, oblivious to the ecological damage they are conflicting.
Imagines the suburbs inevitable doom
"When the houses, capsized, will slide obliquely into the clay seas"