Comparision of Poems
I choose topic one for the final paper. I picked 15 poems from McClure’s Magazine from the years of 1918 and 1920. Some quick generalizations about the published poems are that they are rather short compared to the literary work in the Norton Anthology. Another generalization is that they tend to rhyme where as most of the lines in the poems Norton Anthology tend to just flow without rhyming. Another generalization about the poems from 1918 is that most of them are about war or have something to do with the topic of war. Most of the poems from 1920 have to do with nature. The published poems are short and easy to read. Also, they are easy to understand. What the poem is talking about is clearly stated and easy to find out. The poems in the Norton Anthology are somewhat longer than published poems. These poems are about stuff the poet is thinking about, they have no common interest. The various poems by the various poets do not have a common theme. Also, the poems in the Norton Anthology are difficult to understand. The reader has to read them a few times to get some insight into what he poem is about. The reader has to dissect each line and at the end put all their thoughts together to g
And Law controls the plan! In contrast, two poems from William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow (1923) and Death (1930), are about meaningless things. The Red Wheelbarrow is very short, however, it makes no sense. Who would want to read this poem? It is about nothing. It has no meaning and is just there. Death is about the death a dog dying. Who would want to read about a dog dying? Sure, it probably has some hidden meaning that a reader has to think about, but who wants to read about a dog dying. These two poems are hard to read because they do not make sense to a normal person. Their form is hard to read because there are just a few words to each line and they are spread out over the page. These characteristics make these types of poems unattractive and unappealing. The next poem, The Call of the Sea by James Stuart Montgomery, is kind of long, however, the language in it makes it easy to read. It has a flowing rhyming pattern and it easy to understand. It is about the sea. It talks about sailing on the sea. This poem can be easily read and understood. The reader does not have to sit and ponder about different meanings.
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