Comparison of “Ode to the west wind” and “Do not go gentle into that good night.”
Comparison and Contrast essay
This comparative essay will compare two poems. “Ode to the west wind”, by Percy Shelley and, “Do not go gentle into that good night.”
The two poems are similar in several ways. Something important that both poems have in common is that they are both written in Terza rima, an old 3 lined scheme used by Dante in his divine comedy. “Terza rima” means that the rhyme scheme of both poems follows the pattern: ABA BCB CDC DED EE. Moreover, both poems talk about death in a way. They have a serious, dark, sad and almost melancholic tone. It is sad and dark because in both poems there is pain involved. In Ode to the west wind, the narrator is sad and suffering because he wants to be heard by the world and wants to be powerful and “untamable” like the wind. He feels oppressed by the world and That is why he asks the wind, “make me thy lyre”. He wants the wind to be his spirit and to drive his thoughts across mankind. He suffers on earth, he is “chained and bowed with the weight of his hours upon earth.” He does no longer want to live. He would rather die than having his every word being oppressed by the world. We see just how dark and sad the tone is. The speaker begs the wind to uplift him. In the poem: Do not go gentle into that good night, the tone is very similar. The speaker also suffers and feels pain because his father is dying. Here, the narrator begs his father not to go gentle into that good night. We can really see the dark and serious tone. As we can see, in both of the poems, the speaker begs for something to happen, or something not to happen. The narrators pray for their wishes to come true and for their knowledge to be passed on. The language used by the authors is also very powerful. Both poems are monologues, which makes their speech even more dramatic and influential. In addition to that, there are also some very strong repetitions, exclamations and rhetorical questions in both poems that also make the narrators’
This comparative essay will compare two poems. “Ode to the west wind”, by Percy Shelley and, “Do not go gentle into that good night.”
The two poems are similar in several ways. Something important that both poems have in common is that they are both written in Terza rima, an old 3 lined scheme used by Dante in his divine comedy. “Terza rima” means that the rhyme scheme of both poems follows the pattern: ABA BCB CDC DED EE. Moreover, both poems talk about death in a way. They have a serious, dark, sad and almost melancholic tone. It is sad and dark because in both poems there is pain involved. In Ode to the west wind, the narrator is sad and suffering because he wants to be heard by the world and wants to be powerful and “untamable” like the wind. He feels oppressed by the world and That is why he asks the wind, “make me thy lyre”. He wants the wind to be his spirit and to drive his thoughts across mankind. He suffers on earth, he is “chained and bowed with the weight of his hours upon earth.” He does no longer want to live. He would rather die than having his every word being oppressed by the world. We see just how dark and sad the tone is. The speaker begs the wind to uplift him. In the poem: Do not go gentle into that good night, the tone is very similar. The speaker also suffers and feels pain because his father is dying. Here, the narrator begs his father not to go gentle into that good night. We can really see the dark and serious tone. As we can see, in both of the poems, the speaker begs for something to happen, or something not to happen. The narrators pray for their wishes to come true and for their knowledge to be passed on. The language used by the authors is also very powerful. Both poems are monologues, which makes their speech even more dramatic and influential. In addition to that, there are also some very strong repetitions, exclamations and rhetorical questions in both poems that also make the narrators’