- Both appreciate everyday life
- Both discuss nature and wildlife [poppies, sunsets, battlefields, etc]
- Both are centered on a person/ people who have been killed
- Both talk about flowers growing over the place of death, but one talks about poppies and the other about violets
- Both refer to the past: in 'Flanders Fields' lines 7 to 8, and in 'Spring In War Time' lines 2 to 4
- Both sound as though they are speaking to someone or the poem is directed at somebody
Differences
- Stanza length
- Rhyming pattern - one is alternate, whereas the majority of the other is rhyming couplets
- At the end of each poem the last stanzas have different moods: 'Flanders Fields' is almost threatening and angry, 'Spring In War Time' accpets the loss but is going through the process of grief
- In 'Flanders Fields' - the author has personified death to add emphasis to the negative emotions felt towards it
- In 'Flanders Fields' they continuously repeat the title of the poem although 'Spring In War Time' doesn't even mention the title of the poem once
In addition to the post above;
ReplyDeleteThe last point about the differences - the mention of the title of the poems - I think that in 'Flanders Fields' the continuous repetition of the title on the last line of each stanza makes the poem more memorable, the pattern sort of 'drums' the title into your head.
On the other hand, in 'Spring In War Time' I think that mentioning the name of the title would seem slightly bizarre in the context, but maybe that would make an impact and have an affect on the reader.
Natasha Black :) (: