Burning & World Comparison

​Burning & World Comparison

By Christina Hansen

Compare Poems p. 110

Both Bradstreet and Sor Juana’s poems develop similar themes, but their poems have very different styles. Some of those elements of style include imagery, tone, diction and syntax, structure, and poetic devices, such as extended metaphors, similes, symbols, paradox, rhetorical questions, and rhyme. Which poem’s style is more appealing and communicates its theme more convincingly?

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Options (4)

sorrowful

shifting to grateful acceptance and hope

confident

ironic

Tone: Attitude toward the topic

Burning

World

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Options (9)

fearful voice

flames

goods in dust

bridegroom's voice

dunghill mist

hounding

things of beauty

treasure

fair things

Imagery: Language that appeals to the five senses

Burning

World

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words are plain

rest, fire, chest

syntax is inverted to make the rhymes

words & syntax are more formal

comeliness, hounding

Diction & Syntax: Word choice and word order

Burning

World

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Options (8)

"sorrow near"

"heart did cry"

"stood the chest"

"Might Architect"

"World in hounding"

"fair things pay"

"time the victor"

"treasure cheats"

Poetic Devices: Personification, Figurative Language

Burning Personification

Burning Metaphor

World Personification

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Options (2)

rhyme couplets

Sonnet

Structure: rhyme, poetic form

Burning

World