Ocd Neil Hilborn Analysis

Compare/ Contrast
The poets have recited in their own gestures and tones with different types of emotion to deliver the message to their audience. In Neil Hilborn’s “OCD,” Hilborn expresses himself of how it is like to live with having obsessive-compulsive disorder. With the disorder he lives with he shows how much it affected him. First he went from being obsess with objects to falling in-love with a girl. So, the way he shows his emotion to the audience is furious throughout the whole way. Hilborn expresses himself this way to show how his obsessive-compulsive disorder has affected his love for her. For example, when he says "She told me she shouldn't have let me get attached to her, that this whole thing was a mistake, but how can it be
a mistake that I don't have to wash my hands after I touch her?" What he says shows how much his obsessive-compulsive disorder has affected that lead him to be furious. He does not understand why she left but it is the OCD that has caused it. We can see Hilborn being furious when he repeats some words, so we the audience understand what emotion he feels. At the end he gives a happy ending saying he leaves the light on and doesn't shut the door. I believe there he has given the audience a happier message to show how much it is a struggle to live with OCD and how his love towards her changed him.
Next, is Katie Makkai "Pretty” Makkai recites to her audience about her definition of “pretty” by emphasizing the word pretty.
While she recites she uses the combination of humor, hand gestures, sarcasm and facial expressions. As a young girl Makkai has asked her mom if she will ever be pretty and based on mothers judgment it is what society level of pretty is. So what appealed to being imperfect on her daughter face it could be changed. When she is explain this it sounds as if it were a joke to her. When Makkai says, “Grasping my face twisting this way or that way as though it was a cabbage she might buy,” clearly she’s being sarcastic about her mother observing face looking at what is wrong with. So, that she can fix it to be the word “pretty”. When she says that her voice is powerful while using hand gestures, yet she’s sarcastic about what she’s saying. When she begins to say, “ Haven’t found a clue to find fulfillment or how to wear joy” she says it with an angry facial expression comes out she believes that woman do not feel happy for themselves instead more for men. So throughout her poem she uses argumentative emotion. Until the end with a powerful angry voice, furious face, her gesture is yelling at the crowd when she says, “Wipe that question out of your face…the word pretty is unworthy of everything you will be no child of mine will be contained with lose five letters!" Specifically when she expresses that her anger towards the question will I be “pretty”.
Pretty to her when she explains it pointless since society has to fit into a word of pretty.
The two poets have expressed different thoughts; however, the poets have delivered their message to the audience. In “OCD” what may be alike to “Pretty” is that everyone faces struggles in our society. The differences between them are the way they are expressed and what their message is saying and how they express it. In “OCD” Hilborn is acting out like how OCD person would act while in “pretty” the poet expresses herself angrily. Both of them have succeeded by giving their audience the message.