COMPARISON ESSAY

You will write a three-page (or longer) comparison essay . You must compare two of the poems from a list of ten (which will be chosen from among the poems listed below). You must focus on at least three elements (such as persona, symbol, setting, and theme) in your essay.

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Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach"                                           John Donne, “A Valediction:

Emily Dickinson, “Because I Could Not                               Forbidding Mourning”

Stop for Death”                                                                    Edwin A. Robinson, “Richard Cory”

Robert Burns, “A Red, Red Rose”                                         Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”

William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming”                        Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”

William Butler Yeats, “Sailing to Byzantium”                       Randall Jarrell, “The Death of the

                                                                                            Ball Turret Gunner”

William Carlos Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow”                 Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress”

T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”                  Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle into 

                                                                                            That Good Night”