As Imperceptibly As Grief and Afternoons Comparison

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As Imperceptibly As Grief and Afternoons Comparison

Similarities

  • Passing of time 'as a guest that would be gone' and 'summer is fading'
  • Endings 'our summer has made her light escape into the beautiful' and 'something is pushing them to the side of their own lives'
  • Disappointment 'as a guest that would be gone' and 'in the hollows of afternoons'
  • Happiness and pleasure of life is fading away 'perfidy' and 'an estateful of washing'
  • Melancholic
  • Negative tone and words 'perfidy', 'harrowing' and 'hollows', 'thickened'
  • Monotonous, mundane and tedious tone

Differences

  • A - loss of youth and end of dreams 'something is pushing them to the side of their own lives'
  • AG - end of seasons - betrayal 'our summer has made her light escape into the beautiful
  • A - about family and passing of time through life 'out wedding lying near the television'
  • AG - loneliness and isolation - passing of time has betrayed her 'light escape'
  • AG - her experience of her isolation and betrayal
  • A - observer looking at other people's lives and experiences 'their beauty has thickened'
  • AG - shows envy at the loss of time and passing of summer
  • AG - tone becomes more bitter at the end 'as a guest that would be gone'
  • A - cycle of life
  • AG - one stanza
  • A - three stanzas, eight lines each

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As Imperceptibly as Grief was written in the mid 1800s: not the 20th century (the 19th)