Compare and Contrast Wild Geese and Dover Beach

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Compare and Contrast the Wild Geese and the Dover Beach Poems. Instructor: Dawn Burgess English 125 Heather Brown August 25, 2012 Short stories are like novels. For stories there are certain requirements for them to be short stories. Poems can be short stories as well. Stories have themes, plots, and character development with them. To where poems have rhyme and, rhythm and, lyrics. Poems express how a person feels to where a story does not also poems have meanings as well. Short stories are made up of the writer’s imagination. Stories have middle, end, and beginning poem does not consist of any of those things. There is a wide variety of poetry out there and I’m sure there are stories out there to. They both try to catch the reader’s eye. As our Ashford University text book states. Said by Richard Wilbur (b 1921) poetry draws emotions also express strong feelings. Poetry is also imaginative. The language gives poetry power. With short stories they are usually first, second, and third person point of view. The poem Wild Geese. Based on what I got from reading the poem is that nobody is perfect in the world or society. There are people that do wrong. And it’s about Mary Oliver’s life. It also speaks of nature. That begins on your knees means you are praying or asking for forgiveness. Each line has a certain meaning to the writer of the poem. Wild geese represents god in the poem and the clear blue skies represent heaven a safe and quite place. Mary gives a sense of the past. And that Mary Oliver is announcing her place in the

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