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Homework:
Comparing Two Poems
One way to understand a poem better is by comparing it with a poem that is similar in subject, theme, or meaning. You have read “Uphill” by Christina Rosetti. Compare that poem with this poem by Emily Dickinson:
What Inn is This
What inn is thisWhere for the night
Peculiar traveler comes?
Who is the landlord?
Where the maids?

Behold, what curious rooms!
No ruddy fires on the hearth,
No brimming tankards flow.
Necromancer, landlord,
Who are these below?

Read and reread these poems carefully, using the procedures you have learned. Look up any unfamiliar words. Paraphrase any lines or sentences that seem difficult or obscure. When you feel you understand both poems, compare them in an essay. In your essay, include answers to the following questions:
1. What is similar about the subjects of the poems?
2. What is similar or dissimilar about the moods or tones created by the two poems?
3. Who are the speakers in the poems? How do the speakers and their situations resemble or differ from one another?
4. What other similarities or differences can you find in the ideas and methods used in the two poems?

Visit blog to check answers to exercises 1,2, and 3

Exercises 4 and 5 in Chapter 21 Elements of Language

Chapter 21 Chart Worksheets (distributed in class)