comparison of two poems

Name

Dr . David B . Axelrod

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A Comparison and Contrast on

Axelrod 's Some Things Should be Dead and Stafford 's Traveling Through the Dark

Introduction

It is inevitable for a living thing to die and sometimes , death will come in the most unexpected of times . More still , death of other things will largely depend on us - that we are answerable for the death of other living things such as insects or animals is more than true . Such is the case presented in David B . Axelrod

's Some Things Should be Dead and William Stafford 's Traveling Through the Dark

Literature has always been a mirror of some truths of reality , and sometimes , it can also reflect the musings of a person - giving voice to imagination , reason , and emotion . This is most true with regard to poems as they reflect beauty and creativity , no matter how appalling or magnanimous it may be . In this essay , two poems will be analyzed according to the theme they have presented - that of the circumstance of Death . Both Axelrod 's and Stafford 's poems are able to exemplify the subject of Death . However , it is the truth behind Death that is most magnetizing . This truth is that no matter how appalling Death may be , it can sometime be a good deed and a merciful act

The Great Poems of Irony

What is most interesting about the two poems is that they contain irony which can also be translated to the theme of...