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There is a strong resemblance, both visually and literally, between the two poems 'Cut Grass' and 'The Trees'.
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There is a strong resemblance, both visually and literally, between the two poems 'Cut Grass' and 'The Trees'. The most palpable resemblance is that they are both written by the same poet: Philip Larkin. Both the poems portray life towards death. Visually, they both contain three verses, consisting of four lines each. Though they are not exactly the same in every aspect, there are some differentiating characteristics between the two poems. 'The Trees', is a small three stanza composition, rhyming 'ABBACDDC'. The opening line of 'The Trees' conveys to us that they have started their yearly cycle of germinating. 'The trees are coming into leaf'. The last line of the first verse is purposefully early. Philip Larkin uses the word 'grief'. He intended to use this word to intensify the theme. The noun grief means extreme sadness. ' Their greenness is a kind of grief'. In this line, Larkin assigns...
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