Compare The Two Poems In Terms Of Presentation, Poetic Devices, And Technique.

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Compare The Two Poems In Terms Of Presentation, Poetic Devices, And Technique.

my Lowell When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum. I call out for you against the jutted stars And shout into the ridges of the wind. Streets coming fast, One after the other, Wedge you away from me, And the lamps of the city prick my eyes So that I can no longer see your face. Why should I leave you, To wound myself upon the sharp edges of the night? Source: Lowell, Amy. "The Taxi." Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds. New York: MacMillan Co., 1914. Google Books. Web. 29 June 2011. "Where Have You Gone" by Mari Evans Where have you gone with your confident walk with your crooked smile why did you leave me when you took your laughter and departed are you aware that with you went the sun all light and what few stars there were? Where have you gone with your confident walk your crooked smile the rent money in one pocket and my heart in another . . . Source: Evans, Mari. "Where Have You Gone." I Am a Black Woman. New York: Morrow, 1970. Google Books. Web. 29 June 2011. Compare the two poems in terms of presentation, poetic devices, and technique.
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Responses may vary but should include some or all of the following information: Both poems are written in free verse and use enjambment to enhance fluency and add emphasis. For example, Lowell runs the first three lines without end punctuation until the third line. Evans' poem does not use any punctuation at all until the ellipsis at the end of the poem, implying that the feeling continues still. Both poets are mourning being apart from their loved one and trying to express their feelings about the separation. Evans uses apostrophe to question her absent love, while Lowell's poem is more self-reflective. Both poems use metaphor or simile. Lowell's "world beats dead/[l]ike a slackened drum," and Evans claims that when her love left, "the sun/all light/and what few stars/there were" left too. Lowell ends her poem with an especially vivid metaphorical image of wounding herself "upon the sharp edges of the night," while Evans closes with an ironic image of her love's "confident/walk," "crooked smile," and the "rent money/in one pocket and/[her] heart in another." The love appears to have had more than just a crooked smile! Lowell's poem seems to indicate a temporary parting, while Evans' love indicates a permanent parting.
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