Poem Essay

Write an essay in which you compare your poem with one of the others on the adoption list.

The structure, the style, the devices used in two poems may not be identical, yet they may still be able to transmit the same message. The poems 'Working Together' and 'Everything is Going to be Alright,' are not composed in the same way, but they give off a message of hope, of optimism, and of working together to accomplish great things. There are obvious differences within the two, but both authors speak about bettering ourselves, bettering our world, and bettering our perspective.

'Everything is Going to be Alright' written by Derek Mahon emits the message of hope, even when things get difficult and dark. It transmits the idea that obstacles should not impede brighter days. This poem asks one to forget the bad, to focus purely on the good and move forward. This poem tells us that "the sun rises in spite of everything," it tells us that we should rise as well, that we should look for the bit of good in all the bad, and that we should always have hope. The sun always rises, therefore hope must never cease to exist. The poem continually delivers the message that one should "lie here in a riot of sunlight," letting the sun shine into every crevice of our life, allow the good to be the main prospect of life, allow happiness to prevail, no matter the circumstances.

Working together and having hope for a better world and a better 'us' are the main themes depicted in the poem 'Working Together' by David Whyte. We must work for the common cause of creating and finding our individuality. The poem hopes that we will find the "true shape of our own self." The poem states the optimism in one day stopping the cycle of individuals conforming to the world, then being shaped once again by the world. The optimistic perspective goes as far as to hope that every person will be formed, regardless of the shaping going on around them.

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