Her Early Leaf's A Flower Essay

They both have change in the poems. -NGCS-lines 3-4- This shows change because it says, “Her early leaf’s a flower” it means that it is the first bloom in spring and before, the flower didn’t even bloom, it was just a bud.

-AF-lines 18-19 This shows change because it says, “And the child? It’s toys are strewn in the yard like branches after a storm” it means that the child left his toys in the yard without taking them with him or her, but before, he or she use to play with them all the time in the sandbox.

2. They both have personification in the poems. -NGCS- lines 2-3 This shows personification because it says “Her hardest hue to hold” it means that “her” is actually a person, but it is just referring to nature.
That line is just describing how big the man is.

Differences (Contrast)

NGCS rhymes but AF doesn’t rhyme. -NGCS- lines 3-4 This shows NGCS rhymes because it says, “Her early leaf’s a flower” “But only so an hour” those two lines rhyme. The first line means that it is the first bloom in spring and the second line means that something or someone doesn’t last or stay forever. Those two lines rhyme.

-AF-lines 1-2 This shows AF doesn’t rhyme because it says, “He was a big man, says the size of his shoes on a pile of broken dishes by the house. “A tall man too, says the length of the bed in an upstairs room;...” those lines don’t rhyme.

2. They both use personification differently. -NGCS-lines 4-5 This shows that NGCS uses it differently because it says, “Then leaf subsides to leaf” it is saying that a flower subsides to leaf. But in the abandoned farmhouse’s line it is talking about an empty house that has been left all by