comparison essay
"For on carved instant as they flew", from the poem “Seagulls”, by E.J. Pratt, two poets, E.J. Pratt and Henry David Thoreau, were almost one in the same. Both of them wrote about things that interested them, such as technology in the mid-nineteenth century and nature, these things, were also some of their major influences. Their style was to make their poetry powerful and full of energy using many elements. They are quite similar in the way that their influences, themes, and style, often reflect each other’s work, even though they were from different countries.What poets write about is generally based on what influences them, and what influenced Pratt and Thoreau were many of the same things. Pratt was a very versatile writer, but his major influence was always the ocean, because he grew up in New Foundland, and anything that had to deal with it, like sea animals, or birds, and in the poem “Seagulls”, he makes references to the ocean. "As those wild orchids of the sea", thus referring to the birds and wild flowers in the vast garden, known as the Atlantic. He was also influenced by violence in W.W.II to write a poem called “Behind the Log”, as well as a poem based on the story of the Titanic, titled “T
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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