GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE ANTHOLOGY COMPARISON OF RELATIONSHIP POEMS (MANHUNT AND HOUR)

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GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE ANTHOLOGY COMPARISON OF RELATIONSHIP POEMS (MANHUNT AND HOUR)

Similarities

  • Written in half rhymes
  • Both use extended metaphors throughout the poem
  • They are personal to the narrator
  • About the strength of love in a relationship

Differences

  • Manhunt use couplets instead of stanzas
  • Hour uses story-like references such as "Midas Light" - Greek Myth
  • Manhunt uses more imagery
  • Hour is joyful, happy and uplifting
  • The Manhunt is sad, depressing and morbid
  • Hour uses imagery to convey what is seen in everyday life into jewels "no jewel hold a candle to the cuckoo spit"

Overall comparison

These two poems  display the similar cliched attributes found in typical/ stereotypical romanctic relationships but they are nearly the complete contrast of each other.

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