Poem+Comparison

__//**4. Summer **//__

I'm in the back garden, dead-heading fuchsias at summer's end. Around me are poppies and the perfume of stargazer lilies. I'm thinking of how this summer of death has so quickly passed. My friend's father, dead suddenly at his desk.

Another friend's mother with cancer of the pancreas, stopped eating, died with grace. My mother. And her slow dying. Her mind gone, she sleeps all day.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Imagines, when awake, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">she's on a cruise ship. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Music and dancing <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Under the stars. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stargazer lilies everywhere. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Perhaps she could waltz. Not this summer. <span style="background-color: #ff0000; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Not this. <span style="background-color: #ff0000; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Summer. __//**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">12. Sleep **//__

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The evening hangs beneath the moon A silver thread on darkened dune with closing eyes and resting head i know that sleep is coming soon

Upon my pillow, safe in bed a thousand pictures fill my head I cannot sleep my minds a flight And yet my limbs seem made of lead

If there are noises in the night A frightening shadow, flickering light Then I surrender unto sleep

<span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Where clouds of dreams give second sight

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What dreams may come both dark and deep

Of flying wings and soaring leap

<span style="background-color: #ff0000; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As I surrender unto sleep As I surrender unto sleep = **__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Poem Comparison __** =

These two poems used some poetic devices that are the same, and some that are different. Both poems used repetition as one of the poetic devices. ( see in red) Also both poems are trying to make death sounds better than it is, they are using the euphemism. And imagery are involed in both poems too, they are both creating a image of death: poppies, moonlight, bed... And one of the poem has a personification (see in green). And somehow there are also metaphors in the poem. But overall, I think both poems are creating an image of death, I can picture a few things while reading these poems.

The theme for these poems are pretty much the same, they are both about death. Expect one of the poem is about the euphemism of death "sleep", but the main idea is still pretty much the same. Both of the poem are talking about the sadness of death in their own way but in different structure, "sleep" is more discribing how death could feel like it's writen in first person, so the author is talking about how death will feel like how it will turn out to be, but "Summer" is writen in first person too but it's not about how the author feels about death, it's about how the author feels about his/her family and friends death, so more I can feel is the pain of death instead of how dying feels like. "Sleep" structure is way more metaphored, the whole poem had never used the word died, but in "Summer" it had been mentioned a few times.