英语诗歌对比评析.docx

Dingyu Wang(515370910026)Vy100Professor Thorpe11.22.2015I Prefer Poets: Poets Can Do More than BarkingIn November 2011, Notch officially completed work on Minecraft 1.0, “an open world game that has no specific goals for the player to accomplish” (Gallegos), which turned out to be a huge success (McCarthy). McCarthy first regards its success as a mystery since it’s only an indie game without any advertising but he finally points out that the success is just because players “have free rein to build, build, build”(par. 18). People do enjoy the freedom to think and create. In effect, the situation is analogical when people encounter poems. “Who Is a Poet” and “Another Reason I Don’t Keep a Gun in the House” are two poems that both take advantages of audience’s imagination in order to convey its message. However, “Who Is a Poet” provides more freedom for audience to understand and to imagine, thus giving a more effective argument, while “Another Reason I Don’t Keep a Gun in the House” restricts audience’s imagination in the author’s world by giving a detailed imaginary scene. The detailed reasons why “Who Is a Poet” is better than “Another Reason I Don’t Keep a Gun in the House” will be gradually revealed by analyzing the logos, ethos, and pathos in those poems.Billy Collins writes “Another Reason I Don’t Keep a Gun in the House” in an imaginarily narrative way, encouraging people to seek joy amidst sorrow. In the poem, the neighbors’ dog keeps barking which almost drives the speaker craze. Then he falls into his imaginary world where the annoying dog becomes a soloist. The story that the speaker uses imagination to make an irritating dog so funny tells people not to be stuck by little annoyance and try to make life happier.Alternatively, Tadeusz Ró?ewicz writes “Who Is a Poet” to answer the question who is a poet. His argument is that poets are hard to define- anyone can be a poet under certain circumstances. Therefore, he actually gives a “vacant” definition of poets