Comparison between November Story and November night, Edinburgh
November Story and November night, Edinburgh
November Story and November night, Edinburgh are two poems that differ in several ways but are essentially similarly themed. Both poems are similar in the way that they use personification to emphasise the weather. Both poems use animal imagery and people to emphasise how bad the weather actually is.
The poem November story, by Vernon Scanell is from the writer’s point of view and is about a man who is in the wincing cold and sees a man, “a victim of crime” propped against a lamp post. The body turns out to be a Guy Fawkes and the man then gives the “urchin boy” with the guy some money. November night, Edinburgh is about November coming to an end and the rawness of winter.
The start of November story is written in personification and is describing the coldness of the November evening. “The evening had caught a cold” emphasises how cold the weather actually is by saying that even the weather has a cold and is chilly. From the first stanza to the second there is a change in atmosphere with a direct comparison “I sat in a warm bar.” This also emphasises how cold the weather actually is. This is a juxtapose to the opening first stanza.
Throughout the poem, animal imagery is used to show the atmosphere and the mood. For example “Where shadows prowled the alleys.” The word prowled makes us think of a predatory animal and shows the atmosphere to be quite sinister and dark.
The use of personification in the poem creates a picture in the reader's mind of what the speaker felt and saw on that November day. Personification also helps connect the feeling of November to the feeling that the speaker felt when he saw the homeless man in the ally. The man sees a person whose legs were “splayed out wide” and who’s “head lolled to one side.” To begin with, the man believes he has seen someone who is “a victim of crime” and we feel sympathy for him. However as the man gets closer he hears an urchin child say “Spare a penny for the
November Story and November night, Edinburgh are two poems that differ in several ways but are essentially similarly themed. Both poems are similar in the way that they use personification to emphasise the weather. Both poems use animal imagery and people to emphasise how bad the weather actually is.
The poem November story, by Vernon Scanell is from the writer’s point of view and is about a man who is in the wincing cold and sees a man, “a victim of crime” propped against a lamp post. The body turns out to be a Guy Fawkes and the man then gives the “urchin boy” with the guy some money. November night, Edinburgh is about November coming to an end and the rawness of winter.
The start of November story is written in personification and is describing the coldness of the November evening. “The evening had caught a cold” emphasises how cold the weather actually is by saying that even the weather has a cold and is chilly. From the first stanza to the second there is a change in atmosphere with a direct comparison “I sat in a warm bar.” This also emphasises how cold the weather actually is. This is a juxtapose to the opening first stanza.
Throughout the poem, animal imagery is used to show the atmosphere and the mood. For example “Where shadows prowled the alleys.” The word prowled makes us think of a predatory animal and shows the atmosphere to be quite sinister and dark.
The use of personification in the poem creates a picture in the reader's mind of what the speaker felt and saw on that November day. Personification also helps connect the feeling of November to the feeling that the speaker felt when he saw the homeless man in the ally. The man sees a person whose legs were “splayed out wide” and who’s “head lolled to one side.” To begin with, the man believes he has seen someone who is “a victim of crime” and we feel sympathy for him. However as the man gets closer he hears an urchin child say “Spare a penny for the