'She Walks In Beauty' By George Gordon

Two poems. Two different authors. Two different titles. Two different ideas. Do you they really have anything in common? “She Walks in Beauty” by George Gordon (Lord Lord Byron), is a long elegant poem. It's about a women and how her husband or loved one sees her. It gets you in your feelings, majorly. The person writing the poem is the poet himself, you can tell this by the words he uses. In the first line he says “She walks in beauty, like the night”, “she” is one of the clue words. Two major things in poems to look for are diction and figure of speech. In “She walks in Beauty”, the diction is dark, kinda spooky, and it makes you think about how you see people and the world. An example is “And all that's best in dark and bright, meet in her aspect and her eyes”. Different
It's about a few kids and how they think they are “cool” nowadays by skipping school, drinking, and that sort of stuff. The person writing the poem is not the poet, but someone else. You can't really tell who the exact person is, but I'm guessing its a teenager who did all the things it says in the poem. In the first line of “We Real Cool” it says, “We real cool we”. Usually when the poem says the word we, the speaker is talking about him or herself and is typically not the poet. Diction and figure of speech was another thing I could notice right away. The diction was short and simple, repeated the word we a lot and the poem itself is only eight lines long. There is also no figure of speech which was kinda weird, but makes sense since the poem is so short. Just like the poem “She Walks in Beauty”, “We Real Cool” uses imagery and rhyme to help you understand the poem. By using imagery, I can see a bunch of teenagers drinking and doing stuff they shouldn't be doing. An example is “We thing gin” which means to drink. Last but not least, the poem uses long o, a, I, and u for rhyming. Four total pairs rhyme in “We Real