In the “A Barred Owl’” and “the History Teacher” both poems describe the attempt of adults to soften the interest and the uneasiness of young adulthescents. Both authors use literary devices that exemplify two different meanings on the poems. In “A Barred Owl” the auther uses literary devices like simple rhyme scheme to tame the senseless fears. In “The History Teacher” the author uses diction to demonstrate the teacher’s effort to seal the teacher’s students from real world issues.
In “The Barred Owl” the author uses couplets and rhyme scheme to soothen the layout of the poem. The author uses couplets in the poem to simplify a frightened situation like “And send a small child back to sleep at night,” and “Not listening for the sound of stealthy
