Poetry Comparative Analysis Paper
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Poetry Comparative Analysis Paper
Eng/120
August 12, 2010
Poetry Comparative Analysis Paper
Throughout time people have expressed emotions through many ways, some write books, create paintings, and others express themselves through poetry. However, a poem holds many hidden meanings throughout its words, and through analyzing a poem people can understand what the poet is relaying through his or her work. Through this analysis the relationship between the poetic techniques and workplace themes, are shown through using examples from the following poems “The Song of the Factory Workers” written by Ruth Collins, “5000 Apply for 100 Jobs” written by Jim Daniels, and the poem “Factory Work” by Deborah Boe.
The poem “The Song of the Factory Worker” is about a women working in a sewing factory and told from the characters point of view. Gathered from the information in the poem the theme is a woman coping with her job doing piecework in a sewing factory. The woman dislikes everything about her work but cannot break free of the factory because of the chilling reminder of no other usable skills. Throughout the poem, the poet has also used personification giving the red brick building a voice to speak to the woman with. For example, “Oh, you may leave/ But you’ll come back” (Collins, 216). In addition, the poem compares the red brick building to a vampire. In many movies and books, vampires contain the power to drain people of life, or obtain powers of hypnosis to bring their victims back repeatedly, the same power portrayed through the red brick building. The majority of the lines in this poem are a quote from the red brick building speaking to the woman. The building is telling the woman if she were to leave that she would inevitable return because she has grown accustom to everything around her, the same surroundings that make the woman feel like she cannot succeed without, surrounding she will miss. For example, “You’ll miss/ The whir, whir of the...
Eng/120
August 12, 2010
Poetry Comparative Analysis Paper
Throughout time people have expressed emotions through many ways, some write books, create paintings, and others express themselves through poetry. However, a poem holds many hidden meanings throughout its words, and through analyzing a poem people can understand what the poet is relaying through his or her work. Through this analysis the relationship between the poetic techniques and workplace themes, are shown through using examples from the following poems “The Song of the Factory Workers” written by Ruth Collins, “5000 Apply for 100 Jobs” written by Jim Daniels, and the poem “Factory Work” by Deborah Boe.
The poem “The Song of the Factory Worker” is about a women working in a sewing factory and told from the characters point of view. Gathered from the information in the poem the theme is a woman coping with her job doing piecework in a sewing factory. The woman dislikes everything about her work but cannot break free of the factory because of the chilling reminder of no other usable skills. Throughout the poem, the poet has also used personification giving the red brick building a voice to speak to the woman with. For example, “Oh, you may leave/ But you’ll come back” (Collins, 216). In addition, the poem compares the red brick building to a vampire. In many movies and books, vampires contain the power to drain people of life, or obtain powers of hypnosis to bring their victims back repeatedly, the same power portrayed through the red brick building. The majority of the lines in this poem are a quote from the red brick building speaking to the woman. The building is telling the woman if she were to leave that she would inevitable return because she has grown accustom to everything around her, the same surroundings that make the woman feel like she cannot succeed without, surrounding she will miss. For example, “You’ll miss/ The whir, whir of the...