Write a comparison (find specific similarities) essay on any two or more poems by a single poet. Look for two poems that share a characteristic thematic concern. Here are some possible topics:
- Mortality in the work of John Keats.
- Nature in the poems of William Wordsworth
- How Emily Dickinson’s lyric poems resemble hymns
- E. Cumming’s approach to free verse
- Gerard Manley Hopkin’s sonic effects
- Langston Hughes as a prophet of social change
- Neologisms in the poetry of Lewis Carroll