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PRATT AND MELVILLE SHARK POEMS

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Tiffany Chesson 8i Wednesday April 16, 2008 How do Pratt and Melville portray the same animal differently? In this essay I am going to show how to authors differently represent the same animal. I am going to do this by looking at a number of different poetic devices and comparing the use of these poetic devices to describe the animals in a different way. This question is asking me to show how the two authors both explain the sharks' looks and personality in a different light to the other author. Both poems are about a shark, they both describe the sharks looks and personality they also reveal how the shark makes the writer feel when the writer watches the shark. My argument is to show how both authors write about the animals differently but use similar poetic devices. Both poets use imagery to describe the sharks, they use metaphors and similes,...

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