The task set forth is to find similarities between the poems The Names by Billy Collins and Naming of Parts by Henry Reed. I can see many similarities but the one I will dissect is the juxtaposition between remembering information and wanting to escape the information by using nature as the means to that end.
Naming the Parts is about a man having to memorize the parts and actions of a gun. He is probably just joined the military and has to become intimately familiar with an instrument of death and destruction. It is clearly shown in the lines, “And this is the bolt. The purpose of this / is to open the breach, as you see. We can slide it / Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this / Easing the spring” (lines 19-22). He is creating an imagery
Naming the Parts is about a man having to memorize the parts and actions of a gun. He is probably just joined the military and has to become intimately familiar with an instrument of death and destruction. It is clearly shown in the lines, “And this is the bolt. The purpose of this / is to open the breach, as you see. We can slide it / Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this / Easing the spring” (lines 19-22). He is creating an imagery