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Comparing Poetry By James Russell Lowell And Margaret Atwood

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I feel that the poem by James Russell Lowell is more alluring. This is because of the word choice/diction and the structure. Both poems differ in terms of these factors. Thus Making the poem by James Russell Lowell more alluring than the one by Margaret Atwood. First, I will start of with word choice/diction. Most of the words used in the poem were chosen very carefully and meticulously to make the reader feel some type of way. I also felt that once I actually understood what was being said in the poem it felt more alluring and did actually make me feel some type of way. For example, words such as pleasant, moss, lonely, gray forevermore, murmur, and calm. Next is the flow of the overall poems. If you read the poems you can tell that both

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