Compare Poem

             Nature and life has always been one of poets¡¯ hottest themes. Poets arrange the wonder of nature and the essence of life into words to show their affection toward this magnificent theme. ¡°The Seed Shop¡± by Muriel Stuart and ¡°To Blossoms¡± by Robert Herrick are two of the many poems that associate with nature and life. They are depictions of poets¡¯ devoted appreciation of nature and life. The most striking thing about these two poems is that, despite the similarity in the main theme, they are very different in style, tone, structure, and imagery.
             ¡°The Seed Shop¡± and ¡°To Blossoms¡± are very different in the style. Both poems describe the most basic law of nature, the cycle of life, but they approach it in the opposite way. In ¡°The Seed Shop¡±, Stuart starts the poem with following the line. ¡°Here in a quiet and dusty room they lie, Faded as crumbled stone or shifting sand.¡± This line presents the reader a sense of emptiness and desperation. No life exists and stone and sand are the only things occupy the room. As the poem continues, gradually life starts to crawl out -- hawthorn, cedar, lilies, and roses¡­It begins with ¡°a dale of hawthorn¡± to ¡°a million roses¡±. Life has thrived in this deserted room. In ¡°To Blossoms¡±, Herrick starts the poem by mentioning a fruitful tree, ¡°Fair pledges of a fruitful tree.¡±, but the poem ends with a sad line, ¡°Like you a while: they glide into the grave.¡± It begins with a fruitful tree and end up with all the leaves on tree fall to the ground as the life force has left the tree. One poem begins with death then move to life, and the other one starts from life and turns to death. They are just the opposite.
             Style is not just the only thing that both poems deviate from each other; the tone of the poems is also different. ¡°The Seed Shop¡&plu...

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