Poetry+Comparison

====For this assignment, I chose to compare the poems // Summer // and // Sleep //. These poems are reasonable to compare, because they are both about death. They are slightly different however, because // Summer // is about a particular incident regarding death, and // Sleep // is about death in general. If you read // Sleep // before you read // Summer //, or even better, listened to the choral arrangement for // Sleep //, I think it would add a more passionate, majestic quality to the poem. It is no fault of Wendy Morton, author of //Summer, //for omitting a majestic quality to her piece, because I believe she was going for a melancholy approach, however, the choral arrangement for //Sleep// prepares the reader for the serious, solemn, yet hauntingly beautiful aspect of death by putting them in a different mindset to read the proceeding poem. ====

====Their structure is very different. //Sleep// uses rhythm and rhyme, whereas //Summer// lacks it. Both of are similar length and use profound imagery to paint the picture in one's mind. //Sleep// is much more metaphorical than Summer, but both have some interesting metaphors. Personally, I do not care for //Summer//. I don't like how it doesn't flow or have any rhythm when read aloud, and I think the theme is way too apparent to evoke any strong emotions.====