Comparing Quickdraw And Praise Song For My Mother
Quickdraw is a poem based on the breakup of a couple. It uses extended metaphors to describe what it was like in the most heated parts of their argument.
Praise Song for My Mother is a poem about the love between mother and daughter, using multiple metaphors to distinguish the relationship.
Both poems use metaphors to describe the speaker’s feelings towards the other person in the relationship, for example in Quickdraw “And this is love, high noon, calamity, hard liquor in the old Last Chance saloon.” Then in Praise Song for My Mother “You were water to me deep and bold and fathoming.”
Although both poems use metaphors in similar ways they are for very different reasons.
In Quickdraw the metaphor is used to make the verbal argument between …show more content…
Another similarity between the two poems is the use of the structure to represent the feelings of the speaker.
In Quickdraw the structure is very irregular until the very last stanza, where it becomes much more structured. This is to show how at the beginning of the poem their relationship is all over the place and unpredictable. However near the end of the poem the argument calms down and things apparently return to normal, and this is where the structure becomes more regular.
There is a similar effect in Praise Song for My Mother. To begin with the structure is regular with large similarities between the stanzas however in the last stanza it suddenly becomes very irregular. This is to represent the time where the speaker left her mother “Go to your wide futures, you said” and the special bond was somewhat lost.
A difference between the two poems is the use of punctuation. In Quickdraw a lot of punctuation is used and the commas almost represent the metaphorical bullets being used in the argument between the couple and also to represent the gradual fragmentation of their
Praise Song for My Mother is a poem about the love between mother and daughter, using multiple metaphors to distinguish the relationship.
Both poems use metaphors to describe the speaker’s feelings towards the other person in the relationship, for example in Quickdraw “And this is love, high noon, calamity, hard liquor in the old Last Chance saloon.” Then in Praise Song for My Mother “You were water to me deep and bold and fathoming.”
Although both poems use metaphors in similar ways they are for very different reasons.
In Quickdraw the metaphor is used to make the verbal argument between …show more content…
Another similarity between the two poems is the use of the structure to represent the feelings of the speaker.
In Quickdraw the structure is very irregular until the very last stanza, where it becomes much more structured. This is to show how at the beginning of the poem their relationship is all over the place and unpredictable. However near the end of the poem the argument calms down and things apparently return to normal, and this is where the structure becomes more regular.
There is a similar effect in Praise Song for My Mother. To begin with the structure is regular with large similarities between the stanzas however in the last stanza it suddenly becomes very irregular. This is to represent the time where the speaker left her mother “Go to your wide futures, you said” and the special bond was somewhat lost.
A difference between the two poems is the use of punctuation. In Quickdraw a lot of punctuation is used and the commas almost represent the metaphorical bullets being used in the argument between the couple and also to represent the gradual fragmentation of their