Poem+Comparison

2. Sleep
 * Choose two of the following poems. In two or three paragraphs, compare and contrast their __structure, meaning (theme), and use of poetic devices.__ Do not talk about each poem in isolation; discuss one in relation to the other. **
 * 1) **Create a new page on your wiki called “Poem Comparison” **
 * 2) **Copy and Paste both poems **
 * 3) **Complete the assignment **

The evening hangs beneath the moon A silver thread on darkened dune with closing eyes and resting head i know that sleep is coming soon

Upon my pillow, safe in bed a thousand pictures fill my head I cannot sleep my minds a flight And yet my limbs seem made of lead

If there are noises in the night A frightening shadow, flickering light Then I surrender unto sleep

Where clouds of dreams give second sight

What dreams may come both dark and deep

Of flying wings and soaring leap

As I surrender unto sleep As I surrender unto sleep

4. Summer

I'm in the back garden, dead-heading fuchsias at summer's end. Around me are poppies and the perfume of stargazer lilies. I'm thinking of how this summer of death has so quickly passed. My friend's father, dead suddenly at his desk.

Another friend's mother with cancer of the pancreas, stopped eating, died with grace. My mother. And her slow dying. Her mind gone, she sleeps all day.

Imagines, when awake, she's on a cruise ship. Music and dancing Under the stars. Stargazer lilies everywhere. Perhaps she could waltz. Not this summer. Not this. Summer.  Summer and Sleep are both about passing away, though they are written in different perspectives. Summer is talking about how difficult it is to handle someone's death, much less three deaths as the person in the poem narrates. Also, while her mother was dying, she was imagining things, things to do, which she unfortuanely couldn't do because she was dying. She lost more and more memory and slept "all day," which is obviously an hyperbole, because she probably doesn't sleep all day. The poem Sleep, however, is describing what the person passing away is thinking and experiencing. They are thinking, "A thousand pictures fill their head," as he/she reminisces. The person in Sleep is experiencing how death is coming to get him/her. An example of death coming to get the person is when they see "A frightening Shadow."Some poetic devices that are similar in the poems are the imagery. In both poems it is described how they go to "sleep." Sleep is also the main metaphor because sleep represents death.  The theme of Summer is that death is always hard, especially if they're your loved ones who are passing away. The theme of Sleep is to accept death and the person dying is reminiscing and being scared yet excited about their death. The themes are both about how death is difficult, though for Summer's theme, it's about how hard it is loosing someone through death, while for the other theme, it's about how going through death is scary and hard. A few similar poetic devices I noticed from the poems are the following: Symbol- Poppies, Of flying wings.... They both represent death. Imagery- People dying. Onomatopoeia- Flickering,