American River College A Valediction Forbidding Mourning by John Donne Paper

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A Comparison of Texts for Literary Analysis

3-5-page essay, in this pages you will compare or contrast the themes (and other aspects) of two literary works

Remember the purpose of a comparison or contrast is not simply to say that there are similarities

and/or differences. You must have a purpose for the comparison—something that is revealed via the

contrast or comparison.

To get to the

purpose

of a comparison or contrast, must ask:

What is the issue/theme that the two authors are striving to convey?

What question are you trying to answer with the two texts?

This paper requires either block or point-by-point organization for a traditional comparison or contrast.

Please, use MLA format for writing and ((pay particular attention to the requirements for citing))

poetry (they are different from MLA for citing short stories or novels). Always include a works cited

page.


these two of poetry you will compare

1- A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning BY JOHN DONNE

2- Harlem BY LANGSTON HUGHES

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Running head: LITERARY COMPARISON ANALYSIS

Literary Comparison Analysis
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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
Both the poems display elements of sadness, sorrow, delay but also gives hope to the recipients of
the works as the poem by Donne, Á Valediction: Forbidding Mourning’ portrays several structures
related with the seventeenth-century metaphysical poems. The English writer Izaak Walton,
Donne's contemporary, explains that the poem dates back from 1611, a time when John Donne was
about to travel to France and Germany. He, therefore, wrote his wife this valediction, or otherwise
known as a farewell speech. And like most poems in that era, it did not appear in print during
Donne's lifetime as it was first published two years after Donne’s death in 1633 in a collection of is
poems referred as Songs and Sonnets. The author’s work sympathetically eases the speaker’s
mistress at their momentary good-bye by asking that they should part quietly and calmly without
tears or protests. For instance, “So let us melt, and make no nois...


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