Poem comparison

Poem comparison

1. Afternoons

   • Time is changing
     • Seasons change
   • Is about how a woman is getting older and losing there youth
     • Due to their new responsibilities + stress
   • The woman gets married because they are older and have a family
   • 3 stanza each with 8 lines
     • Very regular
   • no rhyming scheme
   • Whole second stanza with four line on the last are all one sentence
     • With commas and colons

2. Death of a Naturalist

   • Starts negative - middle is more positive - end is negative
     • Overall quite negate peom
   • About somebody who was a student when they were younger
     • Student has now grown up and is not a student anymore
       • Middle part is about how the poet remembers when they were a student
         • time has passed on and they are not little anymore
           • They have changed as a person because they do not like nature as much as they did when they were younger
   • Structure - has two big stanzas
   • No rhyming scheme
     • Two line rhyme in the middle of second stanza
       • 'cocked' and hopped'
   • Very long sentences, with lots of pauses
     • Such as commas and colons

3. As Imperceptibly as Grief

   • Imperceptibly - Subtle and gradual
     • Slow change
     • Slow down time
   • Is about different stages of grief
   • Last line is saying that everything goes back to narmal woth something missing
   • Whole poem is all one sentence
     • Lots of hyphensto keep flow
     • Continues flow through peom
       • Time is continous
   • No rhyming scheme