The Hero and In Flanders Fields

SIMILARITIES

• In their structures the poems are very similar as they each contain three seperate verses
• They both include enjambement, which I feel makes you want to carry on reading
• The mood in both poems is quite proud and determined even though they are both based on death
• In both poem the writter makes you feel sad for them because in The Hero they have lost a loved one and in Flanders Fields they have lost their lives
• They both talk in the past tense but as if it has happened very recently

DIFFERENCES

• The Hero is a story about lies and In Flanders Fields is about the truth
• The Hero is straight forward and follows a story where as In Flanders Fields you have to read between the lines of the poem to realise the poppies symbolise the dead soldiers
• The Hero is based on the tale of one person, where as In Flanders Fields it looks at a large population
• The Hero has a rhyming scheme of mainly ryhming couplets and In Flanders Fields it has a random rhyming pattern
• I think that In Flanders Fields is quite lyrical, because it uses repition, rather than the more strutured story that is in the poem of The Hero

Eleanor Izzie Alix Jennifer