COMPARISON ESSAY "For on carved instant as they flew", from the poem “Seagulls”, by E.J. Pratt, two poets, E.J. Pratt and Henry David Thoreau, were almost one in the same. Both of them wrote about things that interested them, such as technology in the mid-nineteenth century and nature, these things, were also some of their major influences. Their style was to make their poetry powerful and full of energy using many elements. They …showed first 75 words of 1006 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1006 total…drift" this is saying that there many birds of the land, and from Thoreau's “The Moon”, "yet always in her proper sphere", and this describes what the moon looks like, and he notices that it is always the same. Thoreau and Pratt both use imagery and other elements to add a sense of strength and power to their poetry, and that is what makes them unique in both different and same ways throughout their lives.