Poetry+Comparison+Assignment

**2. Carving A Name**
 * Poem comparison**

I wrote my name upon the sand, And trusted it would stand for aye; But, soon, alas! the refluent sea Had washed my feeble lines away.

I carved my name upon the wood, And, after years, returned again; I missed the shadow of the tree That stretched of old upon the plain.

To solid marble next, my name I gave as a perpetual trust; An earthquake rent it to its base, And now it lies, o'erlaid with dust.

All these have failed. In wiser mood I turn and ask myself, "What then?" If I would have my name endure, I'll write it on the hearts of men,

In characters of living light, Of kindly deeds and actions wrought. And these, beyond the touch of time, Shall live immortal as my thought.

**13. The Thought Fox**

I imagine this midnight moment’s forest: Something else is alive Beside the clock’s loneliness And this blank page where my fingers move.

Through the window I see no star: Something more near Though deeper within darkness Is entering the loneliness:

Cold, delicately as the dark snow, A fox’s nose touches twig, leaf; Two eyes serve a movement, that now And again now, and now, and now

Sets neat prints into the snow Between trees, and warily a lame Shadow lags by stump and in hollow Of a body that is bold to come Across clearings, an eye, A widening deepening greenness, Brilliantly, concentratedly, Coming about its own business Till, with a sudden sharp hot stink of fox It enters the dark hole of the head. The window is starless still; the clock ticks, The page is printed.

One could argue that the poems are alike because the themes are quite close. In “Carving A Name” the person is trying to be remembered, he wants his name to be there for all to see for all eternity, but he can’t find something good to write it on. In “The Thought Fox” the author cannot seem to find inspiration to write a poem, witch in turn will cause him to be remembered. You could then argue that the poems are alike because the people both discover what they are looking for at then end of the poem. One could argue many other ways the poems are alike, for example one could say that neither of them have very much rhyming if any.

Though one could also argue that they are very different all the same. “The Thought Fox” and “Carving A Name” both repeat thing but in different ways for different reasons. In “The Thought Fox” the author is putting focus one part of the poem. Where in “Carving A Name” The author puts the focus on the problem the person in it is having.

Though one could say that they are more similar the contrasting, for in both the theme (solving the person’s problem) and one could also say that they are the same because if you look deeper into them you can see one of the human aspects in both of them – creativity. In “The Thought Fox” the person finds creativity in something unexpected. In “Carving A Name” The person does something creative and decides to be remember in a totally different way then they first thought.