Comparative Poetry Analysis
Dayna Jones Hour 1
Introduction
Tone and Word Choice
Problems with Hurricanes
*The poet's attitude toward the subject is that he respects the storm and that stanza 2 has a lighter tone.
*The poem has funny words and phrases "lines 12-13" and also sad/scary like "lines 20-24".
Tornado at Talladega
*The poet's attitude about this subject is that he has respect/fear and that he's sorry for the trees in the tornado.
*This poem has sad and tragedy words and phrases throughout the whole poem such as "line 8 or lines 11-13".
Figurative Language
*The whole poem are metaphors about the innocent things about life "lines 32-35".
*The poet is just telling us a simple thing to help us with another beautiful thing to keep us from getting hurt. It gives the readers an image of how little innocent things can easily damage you.
Tornado at Talladega
*In the 2nd stanza, there is personification of the trees, to tell that certain trees are unimportant now and they can't stick out of the road and "sass" anymore.
*It makes the image of how we can ignore the certain trees that bug us and do things that may stop what we're doing. It makes the emotion of readers feel that they can do things that they might not think they can do calmly.
Format
*There are uneven lines, it's free verse, line 28 is shorter than the other lines, line 28 just says one word "but", and the whole poem is a mix of short lines.
Tornado at Talladega
*There are uneven stanzas, it's free verse, there are different lines, and there is one line alone.