Poem Comparison by Brandon Baker https://padlet.com/bakerb10/poems6 Directions: Your group is responsible for making a post in which you must: 1. tell me how any two of the poems we've read are similar in tone, mood, theme or symbolism. 2. Find evidence from each text that proves those similarities. 3. Explain how that evidence supports your claim that the poems are similar en-us 2018-04-25 12:33:29 UTC 2022-01-15 02:51:22 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f600.png names bakerb10 https://padlet.com/bakerb10/poems6/wish/1986674493 1.
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3. ]]> 2022-01-11 18:10:08 UTC https://padlet.com/bakerb10/poems6/wish/1986674493 Carter 2025cartersparks https://padlet.com/bakerb10/poems6/wish/1986683655 1. Dulce et Decorum and The Second Coming are both similar in their mood, both being chaotic and dark, and having a piece of fear
2. "A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, is moving its slow thighs, while all about it reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again...", "His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin; if you could hear, at every jolt, the blood come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud of vile..."
3. Both of these pieces of evidence show a very dark and frightening mood, the words used to describe the atrocities at hand being very vivid for the reader.
]]> 2022-01-11 18:14:20 UTC https://padlet.com/bakerb10/poems6/wish/1986683655 Montana, Sam, Allison, Bryn, Jenna 2025bryngatio https://padlet.com/bakerb10/poems6/wish/1986696394 1. Mood for Dulce et Decorum Est and The Second Coming is somber.
2. "Things fall apart; the center can not hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world." , "He plunges at me, guttering, chocking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams, you too could peace Behind the wagon that we flung him in..."
3. The evidence describe a horrible scene which contributes to the somber mood. ]]> 2022-01-11 18:20:16 UTC https://padlet.com/bakerb10/poems6/wish/1986696394 Grant, Nick, AJ 2025grantherndon https://padlet.com/bakerb10/poems6/wish/1986696987 1.  Dulce et Decorum est and The Second coming both have a gloomy setting and dark tone full of violence and war.
2. "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and
everywhere...The ceremony of innocence is drowned;"- The second coming. "Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,". -Dulce et Decorum Est
3. Both of these pieces of evidence show the very gloomy setting and dark tone of the passages. It shows a very detailed description of the violence and darkness put in peoples lives due to war.]]> 2022-01-11 18:20:33 UTC https://padlet.com/bakerb10/poems6/wish/1986696987 Cora https://padlet.com/bakerb10/poems6/wish/1986703905 1.  Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night and The Second Coming have similarities within the mood and symbolism.

2. "Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage, against the dying of the light." "The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; surely the Second Coming is at hand."

3. Both of the poems have a grim and desperate tone with very dramatic wording. The quotes show the focuses of the poems and the passion surrounding them. ]]> 2022-01-11 18:23:53 UTC https://padlet.com/bakerb10/poems6/wish/1986703905 Lauren & MacKenzie 2025laurenkelly https://padlet.com/bakerb10/poems6/wish/1986704743 1. Out of the poems we read The Poison tree and Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.
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     a. "And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. " -Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night 
     b." In the morning glad I see; My foe outstretched beneath the tree. " - The Poison Tree

3. In both of these pieces of evidence 
it has a common element of death, of how the product of hatred and rage killed their foe.  Also how the son doesn't want his dad to die. One is embracing death and the other is trying to avoid death.
]]> 2022-01-11 18:24:17 UTC https://padlet.com/bakerb10/poems6/wish/1986704743 Elaine W. 2025elainewallace https://padlet.com/bakerb10/poems6/wish/1986713152 1. The Second Coming and Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night both have an unsettling, sorrowful tone to them. While reading both of them have the concept of death in them which makes them seem to be dark.
2. It states, "A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again" and "Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night."
3. Throughout both of the poems it has a very dark theme of death being near and trying to stay alive. ]]> 2022-01-11 18:27:47 UTC https://padlet.com/bakerb10/poems6/wish/1986713152 Olivia, Elise, Yemili 2025oliviahunley https://padlet.com/bakerb10/poems6/wish/1986725062 1: Dulce et Decorum and the second coming are similar because both poems deal with death and the tone is kind of grave. It is more of the way the poems were written in which, they were similar. 
2: " In all my dreams before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning."/" Turning and turning in the widening gyre. The falcon cannot hear the falconer"
3: These two relate because of how they show how the tone is grave or somber. Also by the way they are written it shows resemblance between the two poems. ]]> 2022-01-11 18:33:10 UTC https://padlet.com/bakerb10/poems6/wish/1986725062 Hannah https://padlet.com/bakerb10/poems6/wish/1987028323 1. Dulce Et Decorum and The Second Coming are similar in mood because they both have a scary mood. Both are about how terrible WW1 was and it's kind of scary to think about  
2. "Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere" "He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning"
3. Both quotes show how scary both poems are to think about. The first quote describes what WW1 did to the world in general and the second quote describes what it was like during WW1 and it's scary to think about. ]]> 2022-01-11 21:30:44 UTC https://padlet.com/bakerb10/poems6/wish/1987028323