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Poem Vs Poem
Poem Vs Poem
Period: 4
3-18-10
The two poems of “Ballad of Birmingham” and “The Seven Ages of Man”
both contain some similar poetry elements, yet are completely different types of
poems with different topics. Both poems contain metaphors and sensory details, yet
one happens to be a free verse poem, “The Seven Ages of Man”, and the other a
that life is a stage. The entire poem is an extended metaphor; it explains the life and
stages of an infant all the way through to the stage of old age. This poem celebrates
between a mother and child. When the child wants to protest, the mother says no,
instead making sure her child attend church that day. We later see the irony of the
story when the church ends up getting bombed and the child is never found by their
mother. This poem expressed both irony and the connection and love between a
These two poems, though written in different styles, both have in common
their contents of metaphors and various sensory details. Although they do not share
the same meter or sound devices, “The Seven Ages of Man” having blank verse,
and therefore no meter, and “Ballad of Birmingham” having rhythm and rhyme, its
every second and fourth lines rhyming. These two poems made me feel very
different, in “The Seven Ages of Man”, I felt accomplished going through an entire
human’s life, but in “Ballad of Birmingham, I felt sadness because of the loss of a
human life.
These two poems gave me very different emotions, yet all the same
entertained me. I enjoyed the figurative language, sensory details, and metaphors of
both. The ideas were all different and presented differently too, but main