Write a comparison (find specific similarities) essay on any two or more poems by a single poet. Look for two poems that share a characteristic thematic concern. Here are some possible topics: Mortality in the work of John Keats. Nature in the poems of William Wordsworth How Emily Dickinson’s lyric poems resemble hymns E. Cumming’s approach to free verse Gerard Manley Hopkin’s sonic effects Langston Hughes as a prophet of social change Neologisms in the poetry of Lewis Carroll .