When comparing two poems, several aspects need to be considered. Speaker and tone, subject, figurative language, and imagery are these aspects. When comparing and contrasting Ben Jonson's two poems: "on my first daughter" and "on my first son" it is these aspects that have to be considered. These poems contain many of these aspects and they are both very similar and very at the same time.
The subject of both poems is the reaction a parent has to their child's death, although "on my first daughter" is about a girl and "on my first son" is about a boy. The speaker in "On my first daught
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