Anthology Poetry Comparisons

Question 1

IF comparisons 3

Answer 1

• Piano: parent- sons relationship with a parent
• Poem at 39: parent-child relationship which has been very influential
• Do not go gentle into that good night: the advice a son gives his father, therefore a reverse of Kipling’s poem

Question 2

Piano comparisons 2

Answer 2

• Do not go gentle into that good night: both about the love the poet holds for a parent who is dead or dying
• Remember: memories after the death of a loved one

Question 3

Poem at 39 4

Answer 3

• If: revers of walker’s poem
• Piano: remembering a dead parent
• Do not go gentle into that good night: the conflicting emotions felt at the loss of a parent
• Remember: how to remember loved ones who have died

Question 4

Do not go gentle into that good night 4

Answer 4

• If: the relationship between a father and son
• Piano: a son thinking about a dead or dying parent
• Poem at Thirty Nine: about their dead or dying fathers
• Remember: poetic voice facing their own death and a poet facing the death of someone else

Question 5

Remeber 1

Answer 5

Do not go gentle into that goodnight: Thomas pleads with his father to fight against death, and Rossetti’s speaker accepts the inevitability of death