Do you ever wonder what differentiates a poem from a story? Well i looked at two poems to find out about them,The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes And Constantly Risking Absurdity by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The Chambered Nautilus is about a sailor who was on a ship when it sank and he died , now he exists in the wreckage of the ship and under the sea.
Constantly Risking Absurdity is about a poet and how the narrator compares the life and performances of poet to that of an acrobat or a trapeze artist in a circus. I will be comparing the topics of the poem and how they are different and how they’re alike in the sense of what the author was thinking. I will be comparing and contrasting the parts of the poem that I feel are most important…show more content… Personification is used in while the narrator observes the environment. Rhyme scheme is used all throughout the poem matching every other last line in the poem. Repetition is used by the writer when he consistently uses similar sounds near the end of a line.
In Constantly Risking Absurdity it contains similar literary devices repetition, comparisons, and personification. The same vowel sounds near the end of the line are often repeated in this work. Comparisons are used when the poet is compared to an acrobat and presenting his work is compared to tightrope walking, trapeze, and other dangerous stunts.
Constantly Risking Absurdity differences, tone seems anxious, point of view from third-person, hyperboles used significantly more, allusion to Charlie Chaplin, Similes used more: a poet like an acrobat, theme seems like the author thinks that people sometimes have to do risky stuff to get what they believe across to people, this poem doesn't rhyme either. The Chambered Nautilus differences, imagery describing the ship, it alludes to Triton a guy from Greek mythology, theme is that you have to adapt to new stuff, assonance, free, sea, toil, foil, blank verse,”venturous bark that flings”(Holmes 3), tone is sad. Similar elements of the poems, they are both narrated from the third person, both narrators seem worried about the outcome for the characters,
