Poetry Essay Idea

For my poetry essay I will be comparing the poems “Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year,” by Raymond Carver, and “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” by Dylan Thomas. In my essay I will compare the similar and the different feelings that the two speakers have toward their fathers. The similarity being how they both are disappointed in their fathers and the difference being the reasoning for their disappointment. I will talk about the metaphors used in the poems and how they help to give meaning to the poems. I will also discuss the symbols that are used in the poem and the theme of each poem. The two poems definitely have similarities and differences.