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Compare The Way In Which "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes" by Thomas Gray and "London" by John Dryden Present A Sense Of Tragedy In Their Poems.
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Compare and Contrast The Way In Which Gray and Dryden Present A Sense Of Tragedy In Their Poems. Both the poems differ by a hundred years, but the style and language is very similar. Dryden's poem is much more serious and talks about an actually quite serious point. Gray's poem on the other hand is much more designed to be mock heroic using very elevated, serious language for a trivial meaning. Dryden's poem uses iambic pentameter with all the lines but one being end -stopped. This forces a slower, solemn reading which emphasises the grimness of the poem. Throughout the poem he uses a lot of death imagery such as "A dismal picture", "Haunting" and "murder'd men". Also in each verse there is a definite feel of displacement with such lines as "To a last lodging call their wand'ring friends." The author of this poem conveys the feeling of a widely spread...
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