st” and “Sing lullaby, my little boy, Sing lullaby, mine only joy,” which signifies that because this child is the speaker’s most precious treasure, he will provide for the child the best he could. Lastly, in Coleridge’s “Youth and Age” the poet uses images of nature to explain how “Friendship is a sheltering tree…the joys that came down shower like, Of friendship, Love and Liberty, Ere I was old.” The speaker feels that life’s joys of friendship, love and liberty are appreciated more when you are older. One poet is expressing the love that a parent has for his child and the other is expressing the affects of growing old, so again, the imagery in each poem helps the poet to develop his message. In conclusion, after each period has undergone careful study, one discovers that in the modern poem, “Sorcery,” by Jessica Hagedorn, the theme is the most effective. The poet’s use of imagery and choice of language makes the theme easier for the audience to comprehend, than that of any other period. The other poets’ messages seem unclear because their uses of imagery and chooses language only make the themes of the poems more confusing.Candice WebbCollege Writing 2Mrs. Gouvia-AtherleyApril 23, 2001A Paper of Comparison/Contrast:An Elizabethan, a Romantic, Victorian, and Modern poem A Poetry Analysis It is possible to compare and contrast poetry from different literary periods by selecting a poem from each period and examining its use of structure, style, and imagery to enhance its theme. In the Elizabethan period, “Lullaby,” by Richard Rowlands; in the Romantic period, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Youth and Age;” in the Victorian period, “A Child’s Laughter,“ by Algernon Charles Swinburne; and in the Modern period, Jessica Hagedorn’s “Sorcery,” the reader will come to the conclusion t...
