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English Literature poem comparisons

How do the writers express/convey their emotions by focusing on the themes of control and freedom?

1) Prayer Before Birth (Louis Macneice)
2) Tyger (WIlliam Blake)
3) Sonnet 116 (William Shakespeare)
4) War photographer (Carol Ann Duffy)
5) Do not go gentle into that good night (Dylan Thomas)
6) Remember (Christina Rossetti)

Q1) “With strength against those who would freeze my
humanity, would dragoon me into a lethal automaton.”
Qa) “He has a job to do. Solutions slop in trays beneath his hands.”

Q2) “Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Qb) “On black racks rack me, in blood-baths roll me.”
Qb) “Ordinary pain…. to fields which don't explode beneath the feet of running children in a nightmare heat.” (coloursentiments)

Q3) “”his hands which did not tremble then though seem to now.”
Qc) “What immortal hand or eye/Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?”
(Talks about fear while also referring to the themes of control and freedom)

Q4) “Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.”
Qd) “And you, my father, there on the sad height.”
(the absence of their loved one and the different yet similar opinions about this absence of each poets) Q5) “If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”
Qe) “Let not the man who is beast or who thinks he is God
come near me.” (Addresses the entire human race in both poems, where one is a diffident tone and the other is an order to help protect itself) Q6) “Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks” (Addresses the queen)
Qf) “On what wings dare he aspire?” (which side in the parliament)
(Both revolution)

These 6 poems are chosen and not ‘Poem at 39,’ ‘Mother in a refugee camp’ or ‘My last duchess’ because although all these poems are related to the themes of control and freedom being explored in this essay, there are not enough evidences/arguments to

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