Comparing Puce Fairy Book And The Diverse Causes

Alice Major's "Puce Fairy Book" and Michael Ondaatje's "The Diverse Causes" are two poems that are about a man and a woman's relationship and how their love is the only thing that will keep them together or separate them. Although both poems have an honest tone, the tone of "Puce Fairy Book" is more satirical and obnoxious, while the tone of "the Diverse Causes" is more contented and fiercely passionate.

"Puce Fairy Book" and "The Diverse Causes," both have an honest tone but "Puce Fairy Book" is more satirical and "the Diverse Causes" is more violent. The title of "Puce Fairy Book" supports the satirical environment in the poem. It hints that the fairy book or story being told is somewhat majestic. Puce is a shade of purple and purple represents
Major uses a variety of fairy tale beauties and a tone of bleak hopelessness to get her point across. Men expect women to be that kind of fairy tale but in reality they are not. The line that best expresses this tone of satire and bleak hopelessness is "other princes had made it through my forest." The girl in this line openly confesses and admits her imperfections and she is comfortable with them. However, the boy she is with insists upon making her into something that she is never going to be. "The Diverse Causes," on the other hand, has a tone of violence. This tone of violence represents the fierce passion of the narrator to his lover. The line that represents this tone is "The kitchen window hangs scarred, shattered by winter hunters." Although the narrator uses the words "scarred", "shattered", and "hunters" to represent the fierce passion to his lover, he uses the word "careful" in the lines, "careful not to break the rhythms/of your sleeping head," to signify his tenderness and that he is gentle and is taking care of his beloved one with profound passion to her. "Puce Fairy Book" and "The Diverse Causes" both use an honest tone that is lacking of any disguise. The word "Puce" in" Puce Fairy
The lines that best show the satirical and obnoxious tone in "Puce Fairy Book" are "I decline, with thanks, the honour / of cutting off my toe" Those lines represent an atmosphere and a tone that suggest disappointment from the girl. It suggests that love is not as easy as one would want it to be. The setting of disappointment and reality balances quite well and the atmosphere that is created through this balance definitely reinforces the idea that perfection never exists. On the other hand, the lines that best show the contented and deep passionate tone in "The Diverse Causes" are "my daughter burns the lake / by reflecting her red shoes in it." The contentedness and the passion of the narrator to his beloved one are represented by his daughter who is wearing red shoes and burning the lake because of the strong and powerful force of love they have to each other. The tone of obnoxiousness that remains to the end in "Puce Fairy Book" and the tone of contentedness that remains to the end in "The Diverse Causes" show that the lovers in "The Diverse Causes" come together in the new season of spring, while the lovers in "Puce fairy book" separate in the end because of the denial between the girl and the