Poetry essay number # 3: Following the steps of the writing process, compose a six-paragraph essay of analysis that offers a comparison/contrast of two poems by different poets that focus on either a similar subject or theme. What similarities exist? What differences? Which one do you consider the more effective? Why? Mary Oliver Oxygen 2005 Everything needs it: bone, muscles, and even, well it calls the earth its home, the soul. So the merciful, knows the machine stance in our house work anyway and it's long like voice. I hate it as I kneel before the fire, starting with a Stick of Iron, letting the logs lie more loosely. You, in the upstairs room, are in your usual position, leaning on your Right shoulder which aches all day. You are breathing patiently; it is a beautiful sound. It is your life, which is so close to my own that I would not know where to drop the knife off separation. And what does this have to do with love, except everything? Now the fire rises and offers a dozen, singing, deep red roses of flame. Then it settles to quietude, or maybe gratitude, as it feeds as we all do, as we must, upon the invisible gift: up your wrist, suite necessity: the air. Cathy Song The Youngest Daughter 1983 The sky has been dark for many years. My skin is become as damp and pale as rice paper and feels the way mothers used to before the drying sun parched it out there in the fields. Lately, when I touch myself, my hands the act as if I had just touched something hot enough to burn. My skin, aspirin colored, tangles with migraine. Mother has been massaging the left side of my face especially in the evenings when it flares up. This morning her breathing was graveled, her voice was gruff with affection when I took her into the bath. She was in good humor, making jokes about how great breasts, blowing and the milky water like two walruses, flaccid and whiskered around the nipples. I scrubbed him with a sour taste in my mouth, thinking: six children and an old man have sucked from these brown nipples. I was almost tender when I came to the blue bruises that freckle her body, places where she has been injecting insulin for 30 years, ever since I can remember. I soaped her slowly, she sighed deeply, her eyes closed. In the afternoons when she has rested, she prepares of ritual of tea and rice, garnished with a shred of gendered fish, a slice of pickled turnip a token for my white body. We eat in the familiar silence. She knows I am not to be trusted, even now planning my escape. As a close to her health with the team she has poured, a thousand Cranes curtain the window, fly up in a sudden breeze. Initial each item below as completed. The last sentence of introduction is a precise, clear thesis statement. Body paragraph are focused, organized, and begin with topic sentences, employing transition as needed. All quotations are trimmed down to only the relevant, necessary words and meet the formatting requirements for all quotations. .

1. Poetry essay number # 3:
Following the steps of the writing process, compose a six-
paragraph essay of analysis that offers a comparison/contrast of
two poems by different poets that focus on either a similar
subject or theme. What similarities exist? What differences?
Which one do you consider the more effective? Why?
Mary Oliver
Oxygen 2005
Everything needs it: bone, muscles, and even,
well it calls the earth its home, the soul.
So the merciful, knows the machine
stance in our house work anyway and it's
long like voice. I hate it as I kneel
before the fire, starting with a
Stick of Iron, letting the logs
lie more loosely. You, in the upstairs room,
are in your usual position, leaning on your
Right shoulder which aches
all day. You are breathing
patiently; it is a
beautiful sound. It is
your life, which is so close
to my own that I would not know
where to drop the knife off
separation. And what does this have to do
with love, except

2. everything? Now the fire rises
and offers a dozen, singing, deep red
roses of flame. Then it settles
to quietude, or maybe gratitude, as it feeds
as we all do, as we must, upon the invisible gift:
up your wrist, suite necessity: the air.
Cathy Song
The Youngest Daughter 1983
The sky has been dark
for many years.
My skin is become as damp
and pale as rice paper
and feels the way
mothers used to before the drying sun
parched it out there in the fields.
Lately, when I touch myself,
my hands the act as if
I had just touched something hot enough to burn.
My skin, aspirin colored, tangles with migraine.
Mother has been massaging the left side of my face
especially in the evenings when it flares up.
This morning her breathing was graveled,
her voice was gruff with affection
when I took her into the bath.
She was in good humor, making jokes about how great breasts,
blowing and the milky water like two walruses,
flaccid and whiskered around the nipples.
I scrubbed him with a sour taste in my mouth, thinking:
six children and an old man
have sucked from these brown nipples.

3. I was almost tender when I came to the blue bruises that freckle
her body,
places where she has been injecting insulin
for 30 years, ever since I can remember.
I soaped her slowly, she sighed deeply, her eyes closed.
In the afternoons when she has rested,
she prepares of ritual of tea and rice,
garnished with a shred of gendered fish,
a slice of pickled turnip a token for my white body.
We eat in the familiar silence.
She knows I am not to be trusted, even now planning my escape.
As a close to her health
with the team she has poured,
a thousand Cranes curtain the window,
fly up in a sudden breeze.
Initial each item below as completed.
The last sentence of introduction is a precise, clear thesis
statement.
Body paragraph are focused, organized, and begin with topic
sentences, employing transition as needed.
All quotations are trimmed down to only the relevant, necessary
words and meet the formatting requirements for all quotations.
You clearly, logically explain how the chosen detail support
your assertion in the thesis, while offering sufficient evidence
from the poem to do so.
Your essay is between 600 and 900 words and satisfies
minimum sentence requirements. (The Works cited page is not

4. part of the word count.) Write the word count:
Your essay includes a works cited page with the entry formatted
as instructed.
Your essay meets the format requirements of all essays in this
class, including, but not limited to, products, margins, spacing,
title, and heading.
Your essay demonstrates the careful thought and attention
you've given the assignment and is the result of following the
steps of the writing process: pre-writing, drafting, revising, and
editing/proofreading.
You've carefully reviewed previous graded work to address any
areas that needed attention.
Your essay is an entirely original composition, based on your
own thoughts, ideas, and analysis.