Death has the ability to influence people's lives in various ways. People can be affected, whether it be emotionally or physically, and some may not even be moved by a death at all. One of the few things that is guaranteed in life is that comes to an end one day and unfortunately, it is something we have no control over. All authors have different literary elements that they incorporate in their poems to demonstrate a theme or a message. In John Updike’s “Dog’s Death” and Robert Morgan’s “Mountain Graveyard” they both reveal how death is inevitable, however one poem is dependent on imagery and the other is completely dependent on structure. Updike’s poem consists of a lot of imagery. As the dog is being described as “too young to know much”,
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Morgan’s poem is compact and appears simple since it just consists of 12 words, but this poem is made up of anagrams and each word is somehow related to the word right next to it. Morgan wrote, “ sacred and cedars”(line 3). Those two anagrams help the reader understand the setting of the poem, which can be seen as a sacred place, like a cemetery. After the setting is revealed and by Morgan using the word “stone and notes”(line 1), we not only find out where the poem takes place, but we can figure out that the poem is about a tombstone and the words written on it. After reading “Mountain Graveyard” for the first time, some people may get stuck as to what they are supposed to get out of these very few and limited words, but after reading it a couple times you can tie other things in with each word and see how it helps create understanding that some never knew was there to begin with. All the words connect to one another and one can see each word as a building block to another. Every word has a purpose for the next one. All the words mentioned in his poem all tie in with death in one way or another. The 12 words mentioned in Morgan's poem may seem very simple, but they hold greater meaning that one might easily misconstrue. Although “Mountain Graveyard” uses fewer words and lacks imagery it is just as effective as “Dog’s Death” and it still manages to get the point across and tell the audience about the message behind the
Morgan’s poem is compact and appears simple since it just consists of 12 words, but this poem is made up of anagrams and each word is somehow related to the word right next to it. Morgan wrote, “ sacred and cedars”(line 3). Those two anagrams help the reader understand the setting of the poem, which can be seen as a sacred place, like a cemetery. After the setting is revealed and by Morgan using the word “stone and notes”(line 1), we not only find out where the poem takes place, but we can figure out that the poem is about a tombstone and the words written on it. After reading “Mountain Graveyard” for the first time, some people may get stuck as to what they are supposed to get out of these very few and limited words, but after reading it a couple times you can tie other things in with each word and see how it helps create understanding that some never knew was there to begin with. All the words connect to one another and one can see each word as a building block to another. Every word has a purpose for the next one. All the words mentioned in his poem all tie in with death in one way or another. The 12 words mentioned in Morgan's poem may seem very simple, but they hold greater meaning that one might easily misconstrue. Although “Mountain Graveyard” uses fewer words and lacks imagery it is just as effective as “Dog’s Death” and it still manages to get the point across and tell the audience about the message behind the