Poem Comparison by Claire Alfree https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i I was forced to do this en-us 2017-02-23 19:39:13 UTC 2024-11-10 15:24:43 UTC hello@padlet.com Piano 36521 https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/155883075 BY D. H. LAWRENCE
Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; 
Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see 
A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings 
And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings. 

In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song 
Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong 
To the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside 
And hymns in the cosy parlour, the tinkling piano our guide. 

So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamour 
With the great black piano appassionato. The glamour 
Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast 
Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child the past. 

]]> 2017-02-23 19:41:23 UTC https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/155883075 Letting go 8726 https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/155883183 I loved you first the time I saw you last, 
I knew you best before I let you go.
All the misapprehensions of the past
Dissipated in an hour or so.
Naked to the human eye you lay
Candid as a cadaver on the couch I could have slept on, but I went away
Ashamed to stay, afraid almost to touch.

Lost, you seemed the only vivid thing
In a world made moribund and flat
By worldliness. Renunciations bring
Their own reward, apparently, like that
Last look of yours, ironical or tender,
A valediction and a benediction,
Which endless reruns will not soon surrender,
The indispensable, improper fiction
Of your unforgettable perfection.

]]> 2017-02-23 19:41:44 UTC https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/155883183 Theme 36521 https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/155884482 Both poems contain the theme of how you don't know how good you have it till it's gone. 

"Piano" talks about how the narrator wishes he could go back to the past. He doesn't like his current life and misses his simplicity and cheerful  childhood. 

In "Letting Go" the narrator goes on about how much he misses his lover and how he wished he never broke up with the partner. 

Both narrators wish for the past but unfortunately cannot get what they want.  ]]> 2017-02-23 19:45:39 UTC https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/155884482 Rhyme Scheme 36521 https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/155884609 Both poems contain a rhyme scheme that is continuous throughout. 

In "Piano", the author uses AABB rhyme scheme. Since this poem is about a song, this helps the poem flow and seem lyrical. 

"Letting Go" follows a ABAB rhyme scheme for most of the poem. This is an exception in the last line of the first stanza. The author does this because he does not want to relive this memory so he stops himself and the rhyme pattern. This helps create a clear transition from stanza one to stanza two. 
]]> 2017-02-23 19:46:00 UTC https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/155884609 Enjambement 8726 https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/155886055  Both poems use enjambment to make the reader feel that same nostalgic feeling that they are experiencing in the piece of literature.

Both Letting go and Piano use enjambment while describing the pass to infuse a sense of nostalgic into the audience and make them relate to the narrator and put themselves into their shoes. In the piano the speaker uses enjambment when they describe their childhood home. Letting go uses enjambment while they describe their past lovers.


]]> 2017-02-23 19:50:31 UTC https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/155886055 Similie 8726 https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/155886499 Both Poems make use of similes to show that a strong relationship they once had has now faded away and passed.

In Piano the author talks about how he is now a man then compares himself to a child as he weeps. The author compares himself to a child after saying how he is now a man to show that the past is the past and he cant go back no matter how much he wishes he could.

In Letting go the narrator uses simile by comparing his old lover to a cadaver. This shows that no matter how much the narrator loves his old lover that their relationship is dead and there is no going back.]]> 2017-02-23 19:51:52 UTC https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/155886499 Diction 8726 https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/155886995 Both pieces use clever word choice to signify what their past relationships meant to them.
"Piano" uses warm words such as "cosy" "tinkling" and "softly" to emphasize the positive feelings of the past. When Lawrence 
talks about the present, his tone changes as well as his word choice. He describes his current situation as "vain" and is very aggressive. He ends the poem with wanting to "weep" for the past which shows how terrible his current life is. 

Letting go uses words such as "indispensable" and "perfection" to show the reader how much the speakers past relationship meant to him and how much it means to him now.]]> 2017-02-23 19:53:22 UTC https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/155886995 8726 https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/155889945 2017-02-23 20:02:33 UTC https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/155889945 8726 https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/156117370 2017-02-24 18:57:20 UTC https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/156117370 8726 https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/156117749 2017-02-24 18:58:20 UTC https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/156117749 36521 https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/156119087 2017-02-24 19:02:10 UTC https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/156119087 36521 https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/156120990 2017-02-24 19:08:31 UTC https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/156120990 8726 https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/156121899 2017-02-24 19:11:08 UTC https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/156121899 36521 https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/156121987 2017-02-24 19:11:26 UTC https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/156121987 36521 https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/156123704 2017-02-24 19:17:00 UTC https://padlet.com/36521/v28ejkg2z27i/wish/156123704