Comparison Essay
             " If I could only live at the pitch that is near madness, When everything is as it was in my childhood..." This statement in the "Ode" is a common theme between the two poems. The poems being If I Could Only Live At The Pitch That Is Near Madness by Richard Eberhart and Ode : Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood written by William Wordsworth. A contrast between the two poems is the time period which both these poems were written. The romantic period verses the modern period. A similarity between the two poems is the common manner which poetic devices are used. Aside from the fact that the time periods were different, the two poems hold many similarities between the theme and the poetic devices used through- out both pieces. Through examination of the common theme , poetic devices and the contrast of when these two poems were created, one may conclude that society blinds one from truth.
             In these poems, there lies a difference. The difference being the fact that these poems were written in different periods. William Wordsworth writes his poem "Ode : Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood" in the romantic period. Key elements to this time were, feelings and emotions, individualism, realistic attention to vivid detail, "God is demonstrated in Everything",the questioning of the commonplace, and the form is less restrained meaning that it was a more freely written structure. This varies from the modern period even though the modern period was influenced by the romantic period. Richard Eberhart writes in this period to father his poem " If I Could Only Live At The Pitch That IS Near Madness". The key elements of this time period are simply more social and psychological pressures to alter views, anger and protest, it further examines human existence in a changing ...