I Ve Always Lived Across The Street Poem Comparison

Introduction
How similar can both two poems inevitably get? Differences in poems are everywhere. Hence, it would cause some people to think if I were to say that all poems were similar in some way. To anyone who has read a few poems, that statement is absurd. Even an alliteration found in both poems could act like similarities. Given these points, I will be comparing and contrasting in the next three paragraphs on two uniquely different poems. One poem is, “I've Always Lived Across the Street” by Jon Whyte, and the other is, “When I have fears” by John Keats. I will be comparing or contrasting the following factors including form, rhyme, figurative language, poetic devices, tone, theme, mood, rhythm or rhyme scheme. The next paragraph will include a detailed …show more content…
While on the contrary side the poem from Jon Whyte is about his childhood memories with humour throughout the poem. The mood in Keats's poem is love but with fears and the mood for Whyte's poem is acquiring joy from his past. Next, rather than stating the obvious they are some hidden figurative language used in the two poems. One figurative language that undoubtedly was the most hidden devices found in “When I have Fears” was an alliteration. Another is a simile found is line 4, “Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain” (Keats 1). Here is one more figurative language which is a personification found in Keats’s poem “When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face” (Keats 1). Meaning the star has a human characteristic of a face. On the contrary, whereas the poem by Whyte had fewer figurative languages that I could find. The only one is a hyperbole of a sidewalk and egg, “when someone said it was hot enough to fry an egg on a sidewalk the sidewalk globbed” (Whyte