Comparative Analysis-Poetry

Comparative Analysis Paper-Poetry Poetry often addresses the struggles of life and workplace themes. The language and content used by the author may often convey his or her experiences and how well this is done is dependent upon the poetic techniques used to produce an emotional response or mood of the reader. Three poems have been selected, Ruth Collins poem “The Song of the Factory Worker,” Jim Daniels poem “The Factory Jungle,” and Patricia Doblers’ poem “The Rope” to compare the poetic techniques used, show differences, and similarities of how lines in the poems supports each technique.
The poem “The Song of the Factory Worker” is about a female worker in a sweatshop.
The poem is told from the characters point of view. The theme of the poem is coping with a job that the main character does not like. The one simile in the poem compares the red brick building to a vampire. Vampires portrayed in literature had powers of hypnosis to bring back their victim again and again the same as the power of the red brick building. Throughout the poem the author has used personification by giving the red brick building a voice to speak to the character as these lines illustrates “Oh you may leave But you’ll come back.” “But you’ll come back.” (Collins 216) The red brick building speaks to the character in several lines of the poem telling her that she may leave but that she will return as in these lines, “You’ll miss The whir, whir of the machinery, The click of the tacker.” (Collins 216) The majority of the lines in this poem are a quote from the red brick building speaking to the character. My opinion is this is a unique technique. The character in this poem is in conversation with her vampire the red brick building and not speaking to the reader. The main character and the other workers are victims of the vampire because they are powerless to break away as they have no other skills. Hyperbole demonstrates an exaggeration of a lifetime being sewing as demonstrated in

References: Collins, Ruth. "The Song of the Factory Worker." The art of work an anthology of workplace literature. Ed. Peter McBride. Cincinnati, OH: South-Western Educational Publishing, 1996. Print. Daniels, James. "Factory Jungle." The art of work an anthology of workplace literature. Ed. Peter McBride. Cincinnati, OH: South-Western Educational Publishing, 1996. Print. Dobler, Patricia. "The Rope." The art of work an anthology of workplace literature. Ed. Peter McBride. Cincinnati, OH: South-Western Educational Publishing, 1996. Print. LaRocco, C., & Coughlin, J. (Ed.). (1996). The art of work and anthology of workplace literature. Cincinnati, OH: South-Western Educational Publishing.