Poetry Essay

Working together by David Whyte symbolizes that although pieces of life might not make sense together they work. In this as a group we found that like airplanes that are so Heavy but manage to take flight in the air is dismissed in everyday life but hundreds of years ago would have seemed insane to imagine. Similarly today we find that aliens and life outside of Earth is unreal, but maybe we will find something out there. The peom brings together these conflicting ideas of what is actually there to the sense of things, and the author comes to find out that not everything makes sense or has laws, it just happens. In comparison the poem Everything is going to be Alright by Derek Mahon states that with these alternate ways of thinking we can go two directions. A positive and enlightening thinking or a dark thinking of the possibilities of what the new could bring. At the end of the poem the author states that the way of thinking as long as it's positive will be alright. 

 The poems are similar in their ideas but differ greatly in their order. Working hard starts with the world shaping who the author is and then examining how to interpret the world around him to make himself the person he really is. Everything is going to be alright wonders about the world and how it is relavent to who the author is. The pieces both encompass a sense if wonder and doubt about what shall come but in Working hard it remains uncertain where in everything is going to be alright, hence the title, the future looks bright. 

The poems are very comparative, but then again relate to the idea, are poems alike? The answer isn't simple, alike nearly means some similarities which they do have, but they weren't created on the same basis which makes them very unlike each other. The same goes for novels, you can't necessarily say all stories are alike because they are about love or the changing of character. Therefore, these poems although similar aren't created from the same form and are very much different in their tones and their derived meaning.