Comparative Poetry Analysis
Emma Queisser 3rd Hour
Introduction
Tone and word Choice
In "Problems with Hurricanes" the tone and word choice has a funny tone. He talks about being killed in a hurricane. If you die in a hurricane, you probably think of drowning or being smashed by a boulder. This author has a wider variety of ways you can die. For instance, have you ever thought of being killed by a flying banana? Or that you thought that you can't be killed by a mango crushing your skull? But in "Sleeping in the forest", the way that she talks about dying its peaceful.
Figurative Language
In "Sleeping in the forest", she uses similies, metaphors, and personification. When she says "As never before, a stone on the riverbed." That is a metaphor. She uses figurative language to make her poem calm. She makes her poem "Go with the flow" witch means the poem was smooth .
Form and Structure
In "Problems with Hurricanes" the structure is different form the structure in "Sleeping in the Forest". The poem is made up of about 4 stanzas. There is no rhyme or rhythm in this particular poem. Some of the lines are even but not all of them are. The poem is not centered like "Sleeping in the Forest". The poem is defiantly longer than "Sleeping in the Forest". Therefore, These two poems have there similarities and differences when it comes to form and structure.