Comparison and Contrast essay

Please write a Comparison and Contrast essay about two of the poem 

Ask yourself the  

following questions before you begin to write: 

1.   How is poem A similar to poem B? 

2.   How is poem A different than poem B? 

A.The Road Not Taken  

By  

Robert Frost  

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 

And sorry I could not travel both 

And be one traveler, long I stood 

And looked down one as far as I could 

To where it bent in the undergrowth; 

Then took the other, as just as fair, 

And having perhaps the better claim, 

Because it was grassy and wanted wear; 

Though as for that the passing there 

Had worn them really about the same, 

And both that morning equally lay 

In leaves no step had trodden black. 

Oh, I kept the first for another day! 

Yet knowing how way leads on to way, 

I doubted if I should ever come back. 

I shall be telling this with a sigh 

Somewhere ages and ages hence: 

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— 

I took the one less traveled by, 

And that has made all the difference. 

B.Death, be not proud  

By  

John Donne  

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee  

Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;  

For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow  

Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.  

From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,  

Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,  

And soonest our best men with thee do go,  

Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.  

Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,  

And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,  

And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well  

And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?  

One short sleep past, we wake eternally  

And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.