Comparative Poetry Analists
Aaron Jahnke 5
Introdution
Have you heard of the two poems "Sleeping in the Forest" and "Tornado at Talledega"?
Well i'm going to explain the author and what the two poems are about. Everything you learn about the authors is described in the poems.
Tone and Word Choice
In "Sleeping in the Forest" the author makes the poem feel calm , tired and kind of afraid. In "Tornado at Talledega", the main feeling in the poem is sad and feeling sorry for the dead tree sand wishing that the trees where as important as people so that the survivors would mourn the trees.
Figurative Language
In the poem "Tornado at Talledega", everything is gone and destroyed and the people staring into the treeline over all the devastation and knowing that this is only the beginning. When the readers read this poem they will feel the sorrow and will feel bad for the people and the trees. The "poem Sleeping in the Forest" slowly draws the readers in as they gain the feeling of the main character as the plot thickens. The visual that this creates is the moon illuminating a waterfall and the silent body of the character.
Structure and Form
There is no rhythm in either of the poems. there are multiple stanzas in "Sleeping in the forest" and it is a clamming poem. Only one stanza in "Tornado at Talledega", the poem is almost shaped like a tree.
Conclusion
The two poems that where explained in the paragraphs that I wrote about , "Sleeping in the Forest" and "Tornado at talledega", both include the authors feelings in the poems and because of that the poems are made more interesting because the add to the drama of the crisis.