Poetry+Comparison


 * 12. Sleep **

The evening hangs beneath the moon A silver thread on darkened dune with closing eyes and resting head i know that sleep is coming soon

Upon my pillow, safe in bed a thousand pictures fill my head I cannot sleep my minds a flight And yet my limbs seem made of lead

If there are noises in the night A frightening shadow, flickering light Then I surrender unto sleep

Where clouds of dreams give second sight

What dreams may come both dark and deep

Of flying wings and soaring leap

As I surrender unto sleep <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As I surrender unto sleep


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">14. What I know of God is This. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What I know of God is this:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That He has hands, for He touches me.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I can testify to nothing else;

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Living among many unseen beings

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Like the whippoorwill I'm constantly hearing

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But was pointed out to me just once.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Last of our hopes when all hope's past

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">God, never let me call on Thee

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Distracting myself from a last chance

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Which goes just as quick as it comes;

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And I have doubts of Your omnipotence.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All I ask is... Keep on existing

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Keeping Your hands. Continue to touch me. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The two seperate themes are: dying, and faith. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In relation: Both of the poems talk about crossing over to the second life. In 14(What I know of God is this), he talks about how he isn't sure whether or not be believes in God, or the second life, and in 12(sleep); the poet is saying how he is both afraid and looking forward to the next part of 'life'. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Differences: Unlike 14, 12 doesn't directely relate to God, though it makes clear indications to some upper being. And neither does 14 have anything to do with death; but could could make a few assuptions. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">12 is extremely metaphorical, with lots of double meanings, while 14 is very literal. And 12 rhymes every second verse, and 14, doesn't. Almost every part of them are opposite, with the execption of symbols, like sleep in 12 and last chance in 14.
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__**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Structures **__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The structures are different in a lot of ways. But one similarity, are both are very lyrical poems. The first one, 12, is very rhytmetic and rhymes a lot. The second, is more of a story type poem than a lyrical poem, but it has many aspects that does make it lyrical.