The two poems today are To Sir John Lade, on His Coming of Age, by Samuel Johnson, and When I Was One-and-Twenty, by A.E. Housman.The two poems presented talk about two young men who are 21 years old. They both talk about money but in two profoundly different ways. The first poem, To Sir John Lade, on His Coming of Age, talks about a young man who has just turned 21 and inherited his grandfather’s fortune. We know this from lines 11 and 12 “Lavish of your grandsire’s guineas,/Show the spirit of an heir.”. The first paragraph focuses on his coming of age and how he should enjoy it. It doesn’t mention money or the spending of money yet. The second paragraph starts to bring into the main subject of money with line 6 “Free to mortgage or to …show more content…
In paragraph 5 it moves away from how to spend your money to how money never stays with one person for too long. It is meant to be spent, mainly on gambling. It continues in line 6 about gambling, but bring up the reality of life; what about buying land, what about buying a house? Why don’t you settle down? In the last paragraph it talks about that regret of spending all your money, being in debt to people, gambling it all away. If you do that then you won’t live long, and will just end up as a tale mother’s tell their children about so they don’t follow after you. The second poem, When I was One-and-Twenty, talks about money in a different way. The first paragraph talks about when you’re 21 you should worry about spending money and having a carefree and wonderful time, not finding a girl and settling down. To “Keep your fancy free.’”(ln6) like not be committed, not worry about the girls. The second paragraph contradicts the first by reason of the old man who told him not to worry about the girls in the first paragraph is now telling him to worry about girls. He says that when you sell your heart to another, ensure it is the one who will not be in vain and be the one that causes you sigh all the time considering you are in love. That you spend the rest of your days together. As a 22 year old it all fits together and he understands it now. Both of these poems talks about selling and money and young men’s lives, but they are both unquestionably different.
These two poems are written by poets with completely different social statuses. This differing factor leads to two completely different perspectives on the
Both poems revolve around a very controversial topic: race. At the same time, race isn’t the only focus that drives them. They both have an underlying topic that they both touch on, which is being an outsider in society. They are similar in that they focus on the misinterpretation of race, but they differ in that they speak of and expect other people to interpret races in different ways. The speaker in Giovanni’s poem does not want outside cultures to come up with misinterpretations about black people and Hayes’ speaker keeps himself from speaking out to prevent misinterpretations about black people.
The comparison between the two poems is kinda similar. they both have to do with something religious and it both talks about god. in Huswifery the guy is a sinner who wants to be pure and a saint. He basically tells god to make him a robe of glory and to make him into all these parts of a spindle. and he just keeps telling god to do this for him. And in Sinners In The Hands Of a Angry God talks about the same thing almost. In this one it talks about the sermon calmly telling all the people that if they don't go to church they will all go to hell and be tortured. And he also said that the only thing between you and hell is the air. He tried to scare all the people by how calm and how he put images in there heads. About god's wrath and how there
Two main focuses that encompass life are love and money. Since the invention of money, it has been a competition to see who can become the wealthiest and therefore the most successful. But are people really successful if they are unhappy without a person to love in their lives? This essay will investigate the importance of love and money in the novels The Great Gatsby and Pride and Prejudice. Therefore, the essay will focus on the research question: “What effects do love and money have on the authors’ portrayal of the main female characters in the novels The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen?”
The most obvious difference is the fact that one shows the perspective of a woman while the other tells a story from a man's perspective. The letter is written by a guy in the army to his wife and kids. He talks more about how he loves the Country so much that he is willing to die for it. The major does not really mind the fact that he is about to die and leave his family behind. Instead he tells his wife and kids to stay strong and that he will always be there for them. In contrast, the poem talks about how the women values her husband’s love and how he is such an idol. She would put her husband before anything and anyone. Just by reading the poem people are able to tell how much this women respects and loves her husband.Although they both love their families, one is willing to give up his life and abandon them.
The two poems are similar in their corresponding feeling of dread for death. Using diction,
In society, once a male reaches 21, that male transitions from youth into manhood. When a male enters this transition, known as “coming of age”, this individual receives a bit of forewarning advice from a father figure. Although the father figure shares the advice, usually the young man does not take heed, and therefore regretful mistakes follow. Samuel Johnson’s “To Sir John Lade, On His Coming Of Age “ and A.E Housman’s “When I Was One-and-Twenty” depict the issues faced when entering adulthood and the regrets that one could feel after entering adulthood. Through tonal shifts and altered viewpoints, the authors give readers
What does it mean for someone to become a man? How does one get the key or password to becoming a man? Some believe that becoming a man is just referring to a coming of age, and it somewhat is, however there is more. In the short story “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” by Richard white, Dave, the main character is a young boy trying to become a man and is searching for the key. However, there are certain ways to do things in society, and there are ways to not, and both of these ways have their benefits and consequences. In this short story Dave sees the gun as a symbol of manhood, and it will set him free of his childhood.
Zora Neale Hurston, author of the Gilded Six Bits, has a very unique writing style. The artistry in her story makes it a pleasant, easy read for any audience. The title suggests the story is based around money; but rather if one were to dig deeper the reality of the story is being told around the playfulness of money. Character disposition, an idealistic dialect, and the ability to work past an issue all work together to prove that Joe and Missie May’s lives are not strictly revolved around money.
Both the poems have the theme of love, written from a man’s point of view, and explores the way men treat woman in relationships. The former does this by a male narrator writing a poem to a female, using imagery to entice her. The latter by using a duke, explaining the story of what happened to his previous wife whilst looking at her picture. Both the poems use imagery and other poetic devices but in different ways. The first uses them more often to impress her. The second uses them in a
First, one similarity the novel and poem both share examples of the initial pain after a loved one has passed away.
This passage demonstrates how deeply rooted wealth and marriage are to Lily’s character. Lily cannot survive without money and she can never find a perfect marriage. At the time of this passage Lily is
Thirdly, Both writers use a lot of imagery in their poems, they use a big amount of imagination to tell their experiences. Each poem is developed out of
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.
There are similarities in these two poems such as the theme and the observentness of the narrator. Both of the poems themes involve death. In ?I heard a Fly buzz when I died?, the poet writes, ? And then the Windows failed ? and then I could not see to see- ", which means that the narrator?s eyes would not open no more; they had died. In ?Because I could not stop for Death? it shows the theme