Vachel Lindsay - Compare and Contrast Flashcards
1
Q
What is Comparing and Contrasting?
A
The action of comparing and/or contrasting two or more ideas or things.
2
Q
How do you find Comparing and Contrasting in Poems?
A
You find things that are being explicitly compared or contrasted in the writing.
3
Q
To what does Walt Whitman compare the filaments a spider flings out, exploring the “vacant, vast surrounding,” in his poem “A Noiseless, Patient Spider”?
A
He compares them to the “Gossamer Threads” flung out by our souls, seeking to connect the spheres.
4
Q
What contrast does Wordsworth draw in his poem, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, between the cloud and the daffodils?
A
Wordsworth contrasts the loneliness of the solitary cloud with the “jocund” “crowd” of daffodils.
