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Poetry Analysis and Comparison - Coggle Diagram
Poetry Analysis and Comparison
Poem 1 - W.H. Auden's Funeral Blues
W.H. Auden's Funeral Blues is a poem about a man reacting to the death of a friend and potentially a lover.
Auden illustrates the immense grief, longing and isolation felt in the moment.
The story tells of how whilst his world has been stopped and disrupted by the death of his friend or lover, everyone continues living, unknowing and unaffected.
Auden utilises metaphors such as comparing the dead friend to a compass, anaphora (why), caesura, enjambment.
Funeral Blues is written in four four line stanzas with an AABB rhyming scheme.
Poem 2 - Emily Dickinson's Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Dickinson utilises the personification of death to detail her acceptance of death and how she has come with the extension of her journey of life and how death is just a stop on the way.
Uses of words such as eternity and immortality when talking about her journey with death, illustrating that death is not the end, just another step in an eternal journey.
This differs to Auden's Funeral Blues in the sense that Auden speaks about death as a finality, his mate is dead and that's it, whereas Dickinson doesn't speak about death as a finality. This can also be looked at as a difference of the two perspectives, in Funeral Blues it's Auden's friend who had died where in Because I Could Not Stop for Death it is spoken through the perspective of someone who is actually dying.
The carriage that she rides with death is a metaphor for the journey to and the acceptance of death.
Similarities
The two poems are both about death.
Both utilise 4 line stanzas
Both utilise metaphors throughout the poems, each metaphor represents the characters journeys with dead and how they react/come to terms with death.
Differences
The two poems are spoken from different perspectives. Because I Could Not Stop for Death is spoken from the perspective of the person that is dying whereas Funeral Blues is spoken from the perspective of a person who has lost a close friend or loved one.
Thesis Statement
How does W.H. Auden's Funeral Blues and Emily Dickinson's Because I Could Not Stop for Death utilise different perspectives to comment of the acceptance of death and no matter how hard it is to accept death it will always be inevitable.
Coinciding Themes