Thomas And Frost Have Both Written Poems About The Harshness Of Life

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cultures, for example the Africans and the Middle East, believe that owls are harbingers of death or bad omens. Both poets have used their titles to immediatley engage the reader into the theme of the poem.

Frost use of blank verse gives the poem more freedom within his lexical field, blank verse also gives Frost's poem a matter of fact tone to it, "Call it a day, I wish they might have said" within the language used by Frost a sense is evoked that the day is an ordinary experience. Within the same lines we are given the inevitability of the boys death, this line is almost a plea for mercy automatically concentrating on the foreboding tragedy. Similarily Thomas uses simplistic language in a narrative tone to show the reflections of the speaker. Thomas's "The Owl" has casual ryhtm to it, the use of abcb lines keeps the flow of the poem conversational and effectively keeps the reader interested through the ease of reading. While both poets differ in methods, Thomas using four ...

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