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The author uses cycles to establish inevitable occurrences while simultaneously acknowledging the hand the narrator plays in the cyclical nature of life.

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Both poems written in one stanza, and the narrator makes a choice of letting the subject go, after deliberating for a while.

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Both poems have imagery of death, but in "Lady Lazarus" she rises from the death, and in "Pomegranate" the death emphasizes the loss of her daughter

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"Poem"--narrator seeing her life in a work of art and finding comfort in that work of art.

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"Poem"--narrator seeing her life in a work of art and finding comfort in that work of art.

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Both poems use imagery, but in "The Pomegranate" the imagery establishes maturity, growth, and the break in the mother-daughter relationship, while in "The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me" the imagery establishes the relationship between the mother and daughter.

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The poems have the same occurrence of "letting go" of a daughter, even if the circumstances are different.

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Allusion to the parable The Prodigal Son is similar to "The Pomegranate" and the story of Demeter and Persephone.

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Both poems are similar in that they include allusions to Persephone. They also both include sexual imagery.  In "Two Sisters of Persephone", the narrator includes sexual imagery with poppies and the sun's blade. In "The Pomegranate", the narrator includes sexual imagery with whitebeams, wasps, and honey-scented buddleias. Both imagery depict the loss of one's virginity negatively.

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Both poems talk about a mother's feelings towards her daughter. "In Her Own Image" shows how a mother wants to protect her daughter from abuse. "The Pomegranate" shows how a mother wants to protect her daughter from the outside world, but ultimately decides that the exposure will her grow

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The narrator wants to protect their daughters from the situations that occur in the story. In her on image the narrator wants to protect her daughter from the abuse and the narrator from Pomegranate wants to shield the daughter from growing up and maturing

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The characters in both poems have to eventually mature and come to terms with some hard truth. In "One Art" it was how much the loss of the narrator's lover affected her and in "The Pomegranate" it was that the narrator has to let her daughter go.

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Allusion to the same Greek myth

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Use the same allusion of the story of Persephone and Demeter.

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The references to Persephone and the longing that the mother feels for her daughters's return is the same in both poems.

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The poem "Demeter" has many similarities with "Pomegranate" due to the allusions to Greek mythology, as they both reference or contain the actual allusion of Persephone and Demeter. The poems both have imagery from the city of London in "Pomegranate" to the imagery of the lake in "Demeter".

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Both poems have mothers trying to protect their daughter. "In Her Own Image", the mother makes the final decision about her daughter's fate. in "Pomegranate", the mother lets the daughter take control of her own life

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Narrator lives through the daughter

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There is a cycle within the relationship of the mother and child, but it is different because in "Demeter" the daughter returns and leaves and the creation of a woman from a daughter is the cycle in "The Pomegranate."

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"Demeter" is similar to "Pomegranate" because they both reference the myth of Persephone and the seasons. In "Demeter", the poem is a retelling of the story, while in "Pomegranate" the story provides context to the poem.

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Both poems rely heavily on allusion to convey the author's purpose and neither poem is a direct allusion. "A Prodigal" uses a biblical allusion while "The Pomegranate" uses an allusion to Greek mythology.

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Is about a mother's feelings about her daughter

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The two poems can be compared in terms of the narrative perspective. Both narrators in the poems contemplate to themselves, in some way, on how to treat the growth and maturity of their daughters. While the narrator in "In Her Own Image" kills her daughter to ensure she does not face abuse, the narrator in "Pomegranate" allows her daughter to make her own decision and experience the world for herself directly.

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The Narrator of the poem is deciding to protect their daughter from the harsh realities of womanhood. "In Her Own Image" is protecting her daughter from the cycle of abuse while in "The Pomegranate" the mother is debating whether to protect her daughter from womanhood.

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The allusion to the parable The Prodigal Son is similar to the "The Pomegranate" relationship to the story of Demeter and Persephone.