Have you ever wondered what will happen when you grow up? In these two poems they’re completely different, but you get a look at life from a different point of view. Edgar Masters’ poem, “Lucinda Matlock” is about a girl that marries a guy named Davis and they ended up having 12 children and 8 of them died. The rest of the poem is about her being sad. e. e. cummings’ poem, “somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond” is about love, these two people that are madly in love and how they talk all lovey dovey. These two poems really don’t have anything in common, they just talk about two scenarios and how people live through their lives. In this essay I will be talking about what poetic devices are used in each poem I have chosen. “Lucinda …show more content…
This poem is told in first person and you can tell because in lines 5 and 6 it says, “your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers”. The rhythm of this poem is slow and not that upbeat, it’s kind of deep and kind of a message. The central idea of this poem is love. The guy that the poem is about realizes he has never been in this much love before and that’s where you get the name from, because he has never experienced it. This poem actually has a simile in it, “my life will shut very beautifully,suddenly,as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow carefully everywhere descending”. These two poems have a lot of similarities and differences, how are they similar you ask? Well, they both contain first person point of view and they both are about love, they both contain unrhymed poetry. How are they different? They are different because, well obviously they’re not exactly the same and they the one poem is talking about his life about his kids and how he is spending it and the other story is about how he has never been that much in love with a girl and how he likes how it