Poetry+Comparison

__**Summer**__
I'm in the back garden, dead-heading fuchsias at summer's end. Around me are poppies and the perfume of stargazer lilies. I'm thinking of how this summer of death has so quickly passed. My friend's father, dead suddenly at his desk.

Another friend's mother with cancer of the pancreas, stopped eating, died with grace. My mother. And her slow dying. Her mind gone, she sleeps all day.

Imagines, when awake, she's on a cruise ship. Music and dancing Under the stars. Stargazer lilies everywhere. Perhaps she could waltz. Not this summer. Not this. Summer.

=__**Sleep**__= The evening hangs beneath the moon A silver thread on darkened dune with closing eyes and resting head i know that sleep is coming soon

Upon my pillow, safe in bed a thousand pictures fill my head I cannot sleep my minds a flight And yet my limbs seem made of lead

If there are noises in the night A frightening shadow, flickering light Then I surrender unto sleep

Where clouds of dreams give second sight

What dreams may come both dark and deep

Of flying wings and soaring leap

As I surrender unto sleep As I surrender unto sleep

=__**Comparison **__= For this assignment I decidede to compare Sleep and Summer. The themes of these two poems are closely related, that theme being that of death. In the poem Summer, the author talks about death in general and how it can ruin all memories of something wonderful like summer. When you think of summer, you think of the beach, the sun and your whole family lauging and have a good time, but if someone died during that period or recently all you can think about is that they are not going to be there next summer or this summer. However, in the poem Sleep, the author talks about the coming of death and how peaeful it could be instead of ruinning something like the poem Summer. Sleep paints a picture in your head of slowly leaving but, Summer paints the picture od sadness when I believe Sleep doesn't paint that picture.

The structure of these poems are different from each other. Summer is not written in rhythm and rhyme but, Sleep is. I believe both poems have metaphorical features but I think Sleep paints the picture more clearly in your mind and has more emotion. However, I still enjoy the poem Summer, although it is not written in rhythm and rhyme, I believe the meaning is still emotionally and speaks to people.