... and some are not really comparable. I wouldn't attempt to compare The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot - a poem I enjoyed at the age of seventeen - with Milton's Lycidas, which I had to study (and also enjoyed) when I was sixteen. But examiners love to make people 'compare', and so I suppose it is a valid ... exercise to look in a critical way at two different poet's rendering of the same general theme. Here is a request for help with this that I received She said ... their poems? Are the two poems you have to compare (I own to not having read either) expressing the same fe...

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