Comparative Poetry Analysis
Jordan Knoll Hour 5
Introduction
I'm talking about Prayer to the Pacific and Problems With Hurricanes, i'm talking about there similarities and differences throughout the flyer.
Tone and word choice
In Prayer to the Pacific the tone and word choice was was happy and delighted and the word choice makes the poem in a happy tone as well. In Problems With Hurricanes the tone is sad and funny but the word choice makes the story sound very exaggerated, and the words make the narrator sound very precise about what he is saying.
Fig. Language
In Prayer to The Pacific there's a lot of figurative language, there is mostly personification. For example, "Gift from the ocean", "Swallowing raindrops", " Grandfather turtle", and many more example. And all the personification is toward the ocean. However, In Problems With Hurricanes there is also a lot of metaphors. For example, killed by a flying banana , or death by drowning, or slammed you against a huge mountain bolder, and many more examples.
Form and structure
In Prayer to The Pacific the structure and form was very interesting. The print was shaped as a wave. There was spaces between the words. The line numbers are 8, 20, 22, 25. There is big indents through out the whole poem, and the poem was uneven. Then in Problems With Hurricanes there is no rhyme, there's is no rhythm, and the poem is uneven. In Problems With Hurricanes there is only 4 stanzas.
Conclusion
Those are all the similarities between the two poems and the differences between them. I hope you enjoyed my flyer, and I hope you get the next one whenever it comes out.