Poems Comparison

Poetry is a way that poets express there feelings and views on life. Poetry is also a way for the reader to escape from their lives and read something interesting and intreaging to the mind. Two similar poems The Circle Game by Joni Mitchell and When I was One and Twenty by A.E Housman can be related to each other in many different way. They are similar in voice, tone, mood and theme. In …

…and life would be boring and unfulfilling. In the poems The Circle Game by Joni Mitchell and When I was One and Twenty by A.E Housman, two different phases of life are described, through the use of poetic voice, tone, and mood. The main fact that can be learnt from these poems is that all people go through phases in life. As a result, we grow older and wiser as we go through life.