Black Swan Green And Letters To A Young Poet

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In the story Black Swan Green and Letters To A Young Poet both portray the same central idea by showing how beauty is the main concept and how everything has its own little beauty in it in some sort of way. In Letters To a Young Poet the book is about how a teen named Jason sends his poetry to a well known poet and asks for ‘criticalness’.. But the poet sends back about how he shouldn’t ask for anyone else’s opinion on how to write his own papers. Black Swan Green, the main character being Jason goes to Madame Crommelynck to ask her for advice and her advice being that it’s ‘beauty’, and beauty is in the inside. “Hangman” and “Solarium” from David Mitchells Black Swan Green have similar ideas of beauty and poetry, but also different, Mitchell’s
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