Comparing Two Poems
“Comparing Poems & Short Story’s”
Comparing short stories with poems can be an interesting way to learn literature. Things to look for are similarities in themes, the events that take place, the meaning of the poetry, and similar emotions or outcomes from what was read. The three pieces of literary work that will be discussed and compared are Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”, Sherman Alexie’s “Grief Calls us to the Things of This World”, and Alfred Lord Tennyson “In Memoriam”. The point of this paper is to compare three literary works from our reading, after reading this essay you will have a clear understanding of three different literary works and how they are similar.
The first literary work that will be discussed is Kate …show more content…
It 's all about the speaker 's attitude toward her death and what the actual day of her death was like. Dickinson paints a picture of the day that doesn 't seem too far from any other ordinary day in her life. The speaker isn 't scared of death and seems to accept it. The memory of the speaker 's death day is being told many years after her life ended. So, Dickinson explores the idea of …show more content…
It’s like the ghost of the deceased is reading a poem about herself. This informs us as to why the speaker’s so calm about everything. Death 's not the end, just one step closer to eternity. Dickinson had to believe in the after life, but she leaves specific religious references out of her poem. It is not clear if the speaker is recalling the memory of her death from heaven or hell, but it is beyond our world. First of all, most critics accept that Dickinson personifies Death as a gentleman taking the speaker for a ride in his carriage. Second, the three images presented in the third stanza, the children "in the Ring", the "Fields of Gazing Grain", and the "Setting Sun" point out the stages of life, from childhood to maturity, to old age, and death. Third, the speaker 's clothing of "Gossamer" and "Tulle" point out that she could not have been expecting the carriage ride to last forever as she did not dress warmly. Fourth, the “house” represents a grave. The two last lines "I first surmised the Horses ' Heads, Were toward Eternity makes the reader feel like a soul is eternal in spite of death.
References
Clugston, W. R. (2010). Journey into literature. San Diego: Bridgeport Education.
Columbia University Press. (2004). The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story. Columbia University Press
Comparing short stories with poems can be an interesting way to learn literature. Things to look for are similarities in themes, the events that take place, the meaning of the poetry, and similar emotions or outcomes from what was read. The three pieces of literary work that will be discussed and compared are Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”, Sherman Alexie’s “Grief Calls us to the Things of This World”, and Alfred Lord Tennyson “In Memoriam”. The point of this paper is to compare three literary works from our reading, after reading this essay you will have a clear understanding of three different literary works and how they are similar.
The first literary work that will be discussed is Kate …show more content…
It 's all about the speaker 's attitude toward her death and what the actual day of her death was like. Dickinson paints a picture of the day that doesn 't seem too far from any other ordinary day in her life. The speaker isn 't scared of death and seems to accept it. The memory of the speaker 's death day is being told many years after her life ended. So, Dickinson explores the idea of …show more content…
It’s like the ghost of the deceased is reading a poem about herself. This informs us as to why the speaker’s so calm about everything. Death 's not the end, just one step closer to eternity. Dickinson had to believe in the after life, but she leaves specific religious references out of her poem. It is not clear if the speaker is recalling the memory of her death from heaven or hell, but it is beyond our world. First of all, most critics accept that Dickinson personifies Death as a gentleman taking the speaker for a ride in his carriage. Second, the three images presented in the third stanza, the children "in the Ring", the "Fields of Gazing Grain", and the "Setting Sun" point out the stages of life, from childhood to maturity, to old age, and death. Third, the speaker 's clothing of "Gossamer" and "Tulle" point out that she could not have been expecting the carriage ride to last forever as she did not dress warmly. Fourth, the “house” represents a grave. The two last lines "I first surmised the Horses ' Heads, Were toward Eternity makes the reader feel like a soul is eternal in spite of death.
References
Clugston, W. R. (2010). Journey into literature. San Diego: Bridgeport Education.
Columbia University Press. (2004). The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story. Columbia University Press