compare and contrast

In response to the works of writing I’ve read in chapters 19-26, each poem has a subject matter relating to the title of the chapter. Each chapter has its own theme brought into the works, but each piece of writing I’ve read told its own spin of the subject creating it’s own theme. In the paragraphs below, I will compare and contrast the difference between the themes they all portray. I’ve chosen to limit myself to only poems, because I feel that the little that is said makes it easier for me to grasp an image to what is being said and also helps to build the story more in my mind.

In Chapter 19, “Thinking Critical about Poems”, I chose the three poems, “ I heard a fly buzz –When I died”,“ Those – dying, then”, and “The Starry Night”. These poems particularly have the same theme of dying or coming to an end and I enjoyed reading them and hearing the backgrounds to the author’s lives. It put things in perspective once I knew these poems had meaning to not only the story told, but the meaning to the author in the life.

In the first poem,“ I heard a fly buzz –When I died” by Emily Dickenson, it describes the atmosphere and surroundings when a person dies in the point of view of them already dead. The buzzing of the fly seems to be the last sound she heard through the silent air as she departs her life in the first Stanza. “I heard a Fly buzz –when I died –. The stillness in the room was like the stillness in the air – Between the heaves of storm –.” It seems as though the room was surrounded with people that love her and are yet preparing themselves for the death of their loved one as she says, “ The eyes around – had wrung them dry.” Meaning that the people in the room were ones to be hurt and affected by her departure as those o...

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...ove once because I quit biting my cuticles and my hair is gray”. She reminisces of her happiness through photographs of her and her lover and she sees the happiness in both hers and his eyes. I wasn’t quite sure what happened to make her think she once loved, maybe he died or just never talked to her again but feels so strongly about those memories still. As the Chapter relates to love and hate through all of the works of writing, the poems aren’t all about the same themes. The first one was about marriage and sin of cheating and that a love that can be altered isn’t love, the second one is about Robert Frosts love life of a girl he was very fond of and loved her but she couldn’t be faithful to any man, and the last was about a girl that speaks of love she once had and is still attached to but in some case it never worked out and all she’s left with is a memory.