Similarities And Variations In The Writings Of Dickinson And Lawrence
Similarities and Variations in the Writings of Dickinson and Lawrence
Although Emily Elizabeth Dickinson and David Herbert Lawrence lived and
wrote during two different times, and in different parts of the world, their
poetry contains many similarities. At the time Dickinson was being laid to rest
in Massachusetts, Lawrence was born in Nottingham, England. Also, along with the
likenesses, they both have many differences. These affinities and
dissimilarities can be seen in poems written by these authors dealing with
snakes.
The first disparities can be seen in the meter of these two poems.
Lawrence writes his poem, Snake, in a free verse style, whereas Dickinson writes
her untitled poem as she did many of her poems, in iambic tetrameter and
trimeter. The meter of her poem shifts in every other line from four meters to
three. "A narrow fellow in the grass, Occasionally rides;", exhibits this form
of rhythm. Lawrence's free verse style is also a characteristic of many......
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