Use the poems Mary Oliver - when death comes & Funeral blues W. H. Auden to develop a comparison and contrast in an essay of around 3 pages double spaced. 

 

Refer to the events in the poem

in "the eternal present". Use only third person.

 

When citing from the poem, use line numbers instead of page numbers. For example:

Blake uses words and phrases such as "chartered" (line 1), "cry of fear" (line 6), and "manacles" (line 8) to suggest that the city's inhabitants are oppressed and even imprisoned.

 

PROMPT: Examine the two poems listed above and discuss how the two poems' speakers are different or similar and how that affects the

reader.