Comparing Common Magic And An Ordinary Person

Bronwen Wallace's poem, "Common Magic," and Rabindranath Tagore's poem, "An Ordinary Person," reveal how ordinary people and events can be special and extraordinary. Additionally, both poems concern specific people to prove that within everyone's live there can be elements of magic and mystery. In Wallace's poem people are transform through a variety of human experiences, where in Tagore's poem one seemingly ordinary person is changed through poetry. In both poems authors' ideas are expressed through a lot of magic imagery. In "Common Magic" the speaker shows how common individuals are mysterious to the world, where in "An Ordinary Person" a single human being is changed through time and poetry, through magic imagery.

In Wallace's poem the speaker conveys how seemingly ordinary people can be hiding
Because there is another world beyond the eyes of each person, that makes each one unique. The imagery in Wallace's poem points out how people are mysterious. In fact, the poet describes the "seasons of life" and how people grow old. The kids are called "alien like form" because of their innocence. Moreover, the speaker describes how people who fall in love are completely in differ planet and their "lips move/making the customary sound," but it is obvious that they are "merely/words." Between people unthinking gestures unlock faces before them, and it "reveals the intricate countries deep within the eyes' and their hidden lives. In Tagore's poem the speaker describes how extraordinary lives might not look as special as the time goes by. Meanwhile, it shows that everyone is changed with poetry, and it is poetry that makes his or her life story seem so different at another existence. Nobody is really ordinary; it depends from point of view they are being looked at that is what makes all the difference. It is evident that no matter how ordinary someone may seem, his or her life can be changed through