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I have decided to compare 'The Dying Cowboy' and 'The three Ravens' the reason I choose these two poems is because they have both a similar subject death!'The Dying Cowboy' is about a cowboy who as he is walking down the road meets another cowboy who is rapped in white linen I spied a poor cowboy all wrapped in white linenThis line to me says the cowboy is already dead as he is 'wrapped in white linen' but the cowboy is not dead as we find out in the next few lines. I fell that the author did this to create shock as the audience would by surprised when the cowboy is still alive as they had thought he was dead. A few lines on in the poem the cowboy wrapped in the white linen says to the cowboy passing by:''I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy' These words he did say as I boldly walked by. 'Come sit down beside me and hear my sad story'They way Passing cowboy says 'as I boldly walked by' to me suggests that he has something to prove to the cowboy wrapped in white linen Also the way he does not actually admit to the cowboy wrapped in white linen that he is a cowboy all this adds excitement to the poem as the cowboy rapped in white linen talking to th
The penultimate verse is about what he would like the people to do when they burry him but at the end of the verse he says:For I'm young Cowboy and I know I have done wrong The dying Cowboy line 20This is the last Thing the cowboy wrapped in white linen say's in the balled it is very deep and regret full as he says he is young and he knows he's done wrong this is like a final statement saying he is sorry almost for all he has done wrong this would add a lot of feeling to the balled mainly sorrow and sympathy. This would add a kind of sad mood to the people listen as it is quite sad but noble that the hawks and hounds stay with him after his death to protect his body. A few lines on the poet write: His hounds lie down at his feet, The Three Ravens line 7And His hawks they fly so eagerly The Three Ravens line 9This is a lot like The Dying Cowboy, as although the knight is dead his hawks and hound stay with him as they love him just like at the end of The Dying Cowboy when al the people miss him. Later on the cowboy rapped in white linen talks about his funeral Let sixteen gamblers come handle my coffin. He starts of by talking about that how when he was young he was handsome this suggests that know he is not so good looking then he goes on to say that he was gay this means that he was happy and joyful this makes the poem nice a happy and flowing putting the audience in a happy mood. e cowboy passing by is a surprise just like when someone you don't know says hello to you in the middle of the street.
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