Poem+Comparison

=8. Erosion = = It took the sea a thousand years, = =A thousand years to trace The granite features of this cliff, In crag and scarp and base. It took the sea an hour one night, An hour of storm to place The sculpture of these granite seams Upon a woman's face. =

=1. The Harvest Moon The flame-red moon, the harvest moon, Rolls along the hills, gently bouncing, A vast balloon, Till it takes off, and sinks upward To lie on the bottom of the sky, like a gold doubloon. The harvest moon has come, Booming softly through heaven, like a bassoon. And the earth replies all night, like a deep drum. So people can't sleep, So they go out where elms and oak trees keep A kneeling vigil, in a religious hush. The harvest moon has come! And all the moonlit cows and all the sheep Stare up at her petrified, while she swells Filling heaven, as if red hot, and sailing Closer and closer like the end of the world. Till the gold fields of stiff wheat Cry `We are ripe, reap us!' and the rivers Sweat from the melting hills =

 Erosion talks about the beauty and POWER that water can have over long a long term of time, while the harvest moon is something more country people would think about since it speaks of the time when farmers harvest their crops. Their aren't a lot of commonalities between the poems but the moon heavily influences the tides and thus influencing erosion. Erosion has a lot of rhymes in it and so does the harvest moon, in that manner they are becoming more similar but in //The Harvest Moon //they speak of wheat talking, so they are different in the fact that one is more fictional.

 They both talk about natural things which i quite different in the information era, where computers dominate the lands and rule the cyberspace. They're both also talking about the beauty of nature, I agree, nature is beautiful in it's own unique way.

In the aspect of poetic devices, the harvest moon isn't flame red which means it's a hyperbole. Rolls along the hills, gently bouncing is an example of personification since hills don't actually bounce. Booming softly is an example of an oxymoron. In erosion they say "An hour" twice which is repetition. And it says =  "An hour of storm to place The sculpture of these granite seams Upon a woman's face." = which is personification since a storm can't place the sculpture of granite seams upon a woman's face.