poetry comparative

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Since the beginning of the world, humankind always wondered why they were what they were, and tried to define the peculiar dream they were in. This dream was called life. It was found similar to a great deal of things, which were mostly completely opposite to each other. One would call it an endless torture and the other would call it a joyful game... So when writing was invented, people started to put their ideas about this holy value on paper. These two poems I read carry a huge amount of life's elements, showing the diversity of pure feelings contained in it.

The first norm that separates these poems is the opposite feelings displayed against life (tone). In the poem called "Life" we spot a feeling of depression right from the beginning of the poem. The poet asks "Why?" which when read with the title shows us that something awful is going in the poet's mind. On the other side Mother Teresa, seeing the positive side of life starts by the words "Li


All in all, I believe that life is a long way, a gift, a free ride with bumpy roads as well as roads with wonderful views. All we need to know when something depressing happens is that everything comes to an end, and that we must be happy, because what is truly sad is when we come to an end.

When we have a close look at Mother Teresa's poem we see lines that are very poetic, but which seem to lack reality after some point. The cause for that is that Mother Teresa seems to underestimate the negative sides of the endless theme "life", by using a small portion of it and by solving it in a word: "Life is a sorrow, overcome it." However we can understand by the sentence "I don't want to die, when I haven't ever lived..." that it isn't easy as said to overcome sorrow or any obstacle which is from the dark side of life. From these points made, we can realize that life has an ability to make you feel like a king, or not even like a thing. To emphasize we can say that the tones of t

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