Robert Frost Poems Comparison Essay

[tags: Papers] - “I, too, dislike it: There are things that are important beyond all this fiddle.” Poetry has been around for a long time.The styles of the poems differ in accordance to the difference of the time in which they were written....[tags: poetry, robert browning, shakespeare, ] - A Poetry Comparison The poem 'Mother, any distance', by Simon Armitage is from a collection of poems titled 'Book of Matches'; it is meant to be read in the time it takes a match to burn, and thus cannot be very long.The poem is written in the first person, though it is not specific as to whether it is from the perspective of a man or woman, which indeed could be a result of deliberate ambiguity, or alternatively, it could be Simon Armitage himself.The speaker, apparently in a house he or she is about to move into, is measuring 'windows, pelmets, doors' with their mother, who has 'come to help' as they need 'a second pair of hands'....[tags: modern poetry, true poetry] - Poetry Comparison on The Flea and To His Coy Mistress I would firstly like to begin on 'The Flea'.This poem is about a man that is trying to persuade a woman to have sex with him, by symbolically using a flea.Most people learn the facts through: papers, films, books or poems, but I am comparing two similar poems which have different meanings.Wilfred Owen who wrote the poem 'Dulce et Decorum est' or Lord Alfred Tennyson who wrote 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'. Lord Alfred Tennyson is pro war and thinks it's a good thing to die for your country.- In this compare and contrast essay I will compare four poems in detail and mention two in the passing to find similarities and differences.The poems and sonnets I have chosen to compare are ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and ‘My Last Duchess’ by Robert Browning and Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare The two Robert Browning poems, ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and ‘My Last Duchess’ were written in the infamous Victorian Era whereas the two Shakespearean Sonnets were written in the Elizabethan Era.