Comparison of "The Bohemians" and "Lamentations"

We have compared The Bohemains by Ivor Gurney and Lamentations by Siegfried Sassoon.

SIMILARITES:

1. Both of the poems have only one stanza
2. Neither of them have a specific rhyming pattern
3. They both use the technique of enjambement

DIFFERENCES:

1. In The Bohemians, the mood of the poem is rebellious, lazy and also sympathetic, whereas in Lamentations it is a poem with the mood of sad, slightly disturbing, grief-stricken and distress.
2. Although both of the poems rough outline of the story is about war, they are to do with completely different stubjects within war. The Bohemians is about "certain people" who were rebelling against the uniform which soldiers had to wear. They "would not clean their buttons" and "preferred their hair long." The reason for them doing this was beause they assumed they would die in war and therefore didn't think it would be neseccary for them to dress apropriately.Whereas Lamentations is about a guy who's brother had "gone west" which could mean the brother had literally gone west or that he had died, as later it says "his ramant grief."
3. The symbolism in The Bohemians is of independance, uniqueness and being virtuous. Whereas the symbolism of Lamentations is of how war drives some people mad.
4. In both of the poems they use different techniques, but neither of them use the same ones: a simile is used in The Bohemians: "sped like evil for quicknes." And peronification is used in Lamentations: "from the blind darkness."

By Rachel, Evelyn, Izzie and Alix :)