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Compare how the poets present workmanship and their journey of life and composing ‘to a friend ‘Praveen shakir and ‘on top’ Gary Snyder.

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Compare how the poets present workmanship and their journey of life and composing ‘to a friend ‘Praveen shakir and ‘on top’ Gary Snyder.
Compare how the poets present workmanship and their journey of life and composing ‘to a friend ‘Praveen shakir and ‘on top’ Gary Snyder.

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‘All you have to do then is wait and watch. New life will sprout’. I will explore the major theme relating it to liberation and the journey of life and demonstrate this by comparing style, language and the importance in both poems by Praveen shakir and Gary Snyder and determine if this was expected or intended.

‘On top’ by Gary Snyder is a poem that symbolizes his personal journey to life, and the aptitude of the path of life. the title of the poem ‘on top’ gives a sense of carrying the previous stuff to the top, the structure of layout of the poem has more depth in height of the paragraph then goes lower which relates to the title of the poem ‘on top’ ‘all this new stuff goes on top ‘and where his journey begins. The word ‘inside out’ is an expression of inner-self to express his deep essence. It also shows he wrote this poem quite quickly ‘turn it over, turn it over’ and they rhyme and is a simile and also demonstrates he does want to let it drag. This questions reader the voice of the poem is urging you to not let it drag and the repetition of the words create a vastness on the expression it is trying to create. ‘A mind like compost’ a means of a whole new life.

On the sixth stanza ‘let it spread through’ expresses all his emotions are combined together. It emphasises his emotions are in one bubble and makes us feel he has a sense of control. ‘A mind like compost’ he implies an imagery of nature in and life in one concept. The word ‘compost’ may signify tranquillity and how in the past indicating his serenity was disturbed by iniquity. For instance his new life is important to him ‘wait water down’ indicating he is cleansing everything out. This relates to him making a fresh start. ‘Sift down even’, ‘from the dark to bottom these two stanza’s express him making a fresh start and getting rid of the

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