"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened." — Anatole France. Do humans feel as close to their friends as they are as close to their pets? In the poems "A Blessing", by James Wright and "Predators", by Linda Hogan, there are many similarities and differences in the way people and animals are presented. The two poems both have similarities one of the similarities is that they both have animals. For example, in Predators, there is a dog, cat, and vixen (a female fox). Also in A Blessing, there are two Indian ponies. In the text of A Blessing it says, “And the eyes of those two Indian ponies”. Also in Predators, it says, “In the sun the fox bows to my feline and her good dog friends who rule this land”.
Jeremy Rifkin had made such impact on readers through his article “A Change of Heart about Animals”. Not only did he inform us the reality that animals do have feelings, he also unbounded the label we had long given to the animals, thus fully altered our perspectives about these fellow creatures. In regard to the influence, I myself am not excluded. As a matter of fact, since I was a kid, I have started raising pets. As long as it seems, I have built myself an assumption about these domestic animals as they don’t differ much from humans’ natural behavior in life. They have feelings, family and awareness of surroundings.
The settings of both stories had several similarities and some differences. Such as “A sound of thunder” was in the future of 2055. “Being prey” was in Australia around a swamp. A similarity is the predators are reptiles in these two stories. Both stories are hostile and dangerous for humans.
Human beings are considered to be the greatest creations that were given knowledge, skills and power to rule over the entire planet. However, at the same time, their relationship with other animals and its implications in human civilization cannot be denied. Historically, it is proven that for thousands of years, human beings have developed close contact with animals who were their means of living and at the same time often, great companions. Considering the great significance of animals in the lives of human beings, often their relationships were portrayed in literature by authors. It was meant to help the global community to have a clear understanding of the impact that animals have in the lives of human beings which is very much significant.
A Sound of Thunder and Being Prey share similarities among the text. They also share differences. The similarities between the stories are found among the conflict, setting and main characters of the stories. In each story, the main characters were around dangerous animals. Have you ever been attacked by a swarm of crocodiles?
The poem then ends off with the idea that all animals should be regarded as companions, as they have their own feelings as
An animal can be the best thing to happen to a person. As the old saying goes: a dog is a man's’ best friend. People share their homes with their furry friends and gain relationships that are remembered until, perhaps, the rest of their days- just like an old friend. In Bilger’s article, he mentions the relationship between Lady, the sick cat, and her owners, Karen and Shawn Levering, and why the couple was so willing to give up so much for her. “If they were willing to go this far for a cat, it was partly out of a sense of misfortune. But mostly it was a matter of love” (Bilger, part 1, paragraph
The poems “A Blessing” by James Wright and “Predators” by Linda Hogan share many similarities and differences on how people and animals are presented. These poems have many different similarities and differences that you may not know about.
There are lots of things in the poems that are similar and different both of the writers are different and similar in many ways .In the poem’s “When You Are Old” By W.B Yeats, and “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” By Dylan Thomas.They have a bunch of similarities and differences.For example in each of the poems the theme of the poems are death and the narrator’s message in the rhyming pattern poems are both similar in the poems ,and the writing style of the poems are rhyme schemes and therefore they use different rhyme scheme in each of the poems.
I think every single day we are personally connected with animals. We eat animals for food, wear animal skins for clothes, own animals as pets, use animals for recreation, and experiment on animals to test drugs and consumer products. We are aware of this, yet we naturally give little thought to the overwhelming number of animals that we use in these ways, and what the animals themselves might be suffering as we use them for our purposes. While no non-human animal on this planet has the cultured rational abilities that we do, many, however, have mental capacities that enable them to experience pain, suffering, and anxiety
Will you die or survive will you run or die in “Being Prey” and “A Sound of Thunder” both characters are fighting or running for their life. Will they make the right choice? Listen to the people who tell them the rights and wrongs? Will you hunt or be prey? In Being Prey and A Sound of Thunder you either you fight for survival or die trying.
When reading a story with animals as the main focus, human characteristics are either found in or projected onto the characters in order to make them relatable. “Man’s best friend” -a.k.a. dogs- are relatively easy to relate to for this reason; people see their dogs as one of the family, talking to and sometimes
Another similarity can be found in both of the poems due to their mutual usage of the same Greek myth—Icarus. The Dictionary of Classical Mythology details the myth of Icarus as follows, “At first all went well as they flew out over the sea, but then Icarus was fatally overtaken by the joy of flying freely through the air. Forgetting
Another similarity can be found in both of the poems due to their mutual usage of the same Greek myth, which is about Icarus. The Dictionary of Classical Mythology details the myth of Icarus as follows, “At first all went well as they flew out over the sea, but then Icarus was fatally
Therefore we have two poems which are deliberately changing their structure from the norm in order to create effect. However, these effects have totally different intentions, which lead to the end of the similarities and the first of many differences between the two poems.
The poet writes, ?We passed the School, where Children strove At Recess-in the Ring-We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain-? These are a few similarities between the two poems.