Compare and contrast how two of the poets listed below used figurative language and tone to develop the theme in each text. As you construct your thesis, you may wish to consider the following:

• imagery

• metaphors
• the poets’ distinctive voices
• the poets’ specific choices of words
• the poets’ uses of sentence structure

Selection A:

• Kim Addonzio’s “The First Poem for You (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.”
• William Shakespeare’s “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”
• John Donne’s “The Flea (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.”

Selection B:

• Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.”
• Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.”
• Seamus Heaney’s “Digging (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.” (p. 348)

Selection C:

• William Blake’s “A Poison Tree (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.”
• Gwendolyn Brooks’ “We Real Cool” (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
• Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.”
• Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “We Wear the Mask” (Links to an external site.)Links to an external sit