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Comparing Two Poems - School Essays

Comparing Two Poems

Topic: compare and contrast the two poems.
The two poems Package for the Distant Future and The Song of the Whale differs mainly in their subject matter and the way they evoke different feelings and images and also the style and presentation of the poem. Coincidently both poems contain the themes of death and caring for the environment, which the writers feel strongly about.
The poem Package of the Distant Future tells the story of a person who finds a time capsule from a previous civilisation. The capsule tells a brief history of the people before his or her civilisation came into existence. This poem differs greatly in the subject matter to the subject of The Song of the Whale. This poem ...

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the readers.

Great whale, crying for your life
Crying for your kind

The poem Package for the Distant Future produces images of desperation new generations and the history and evolution of old civilisation being held on a scrap of paper.

We had a lot of things we did not like
And could have lived without
Do not invent gods
I hope the earth is nearly clean again.

This image could be seen to be rather disturbing, so to can the pictures produced by The Song of the Whale, which depict image of cruelty, sadness and the absolute ignorance of society towards topics such as this. The two poems obviously speak different theme but the writers still managed to evoke the same feelings of sadness and compassion into the readers.

The repetition of the line "Whale I heard you," shows that the writer, Kit Wright, not only understands the sadness of the whales but also is frustrated because there is nothing which she can do to prevent further harm to these creatures. ...

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Added: 11/29/2006 09:43:45 PM
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