Comparitive Poestry Essay

Question 1

London and living space comparisons:

Answer 1

🟢children : In living space a symbolism for hope and further development. In London exploited for own personal gain.

Question 2

livng space and london

place , paragraph 1

Answer 2

• inhospitable living conditions of the place conveyed
• charter’d Thames
• beams balance, “leans dangerously” + structure

Question 3

living place and london

place paragraph 2

Answer 3

• uneven distribution of wealth of wealth
• “chimney sweepers cry”/ “youthful harlots
• slanted universe

Question 4

london and living space

place

Question 5

death of a naturalist and the prelude

nature p1

Answer 5

In both poems, nature inspires a sense of awe and jubilance within childhood.
* DOAN: rotting and festered
* Prelude: “we hiss’d along the polish ice

Question 6

death of a naturalist and the prelude

nature p2

Answer 6

Both poms explore the overwhelming power of nature
* DOAN: spawn would clutch it juxtaposed with previous memories of collecting the spawn
* Prelude: “tinkled” to “alien sounds of melancholy, danger

Question 7

death of a naturalist and prelude

nature

Answer 7

The two poems suggest that nature is a immoral powerful force, transcending human constructs
* DOAN: “the orange sky of the evening died away
* prelude: personfication of “kings

Question 8

death of a naturalist and the prelude

nature

Answer 8

While The Prelude ends with the comfort of the everlasting power of nature, in Death of A Naturalist, trepidation and fear of nature is conveyed
* Prelude: “the orange sky of the evening died away”. one stanza, maintains the enthusiam for nature
* DOAN: semantic field of war “angry frogs, “mud grenades”, “vengance”. Dramatic shift in tone towards nature, shift from second stanza
nature is presnted as threatning, somrhting he is no longer at ease with

Question 9

death of a naturalist and the prelude

childhood

Answer 9

transition from childhood