Comparison & Contrast Essay of Two Poets

You need to select two of the poets and one each of their poems listed below and discuss the similarities and differences among their poems.

Robert Frost – “Mending Wall”, “After Apple Picking”, “Home Burial” “The Road not Taken” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”

Carl Sandburg -“Chicago”

Marianne Moor- “Poetry” “To a Snail”

E.E. Cummings- “In Just” “Buffalo Bills” “The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls” “next to of course god America I” “Anyone lived in a pretty how town”

Langston Hughes – “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” “Mother to Son” “I, Too” “The Weary Blues” “Freedom”

Theodore Roethke – “My Papa’s Waltz

Sylvia Plath – “Daddy”

Audre Lorde – “Black Mother Woman”

Joy Harjo – “What Bear” “Call It Fear”

Cathy Song – “The White Porch” “Beauty & Sadness “Heaven”