The City Planners' and 'the Planners

In ‘The City Planners’ by Margaret Atwood and ‘The Planners’ by Boey Kim Cheng, both poet uses the structure of the poem and language techniques to form the difference between the place itself and its identity.
The uniformity between these two poems is the feelings of the poet expresses for this place. In ‘The City planners’ Atwood describes the place as “dry August sunlight”, this portrays an imagery of no lighting, dark and negative and also suggests to the readers that she do not like where she are. Similarly, in “The Planners” where the poet expresses to the readers that he dislikes the atmosphere because “All spaces are gridded” which gives an imagery of there is no free space around this area. Both the poet highlights the identity of the city is perfect but in a negative way. Atwood uses sibilance in “cutting a straight swath in the discouraged grass.” This emphasizes that even nature is not freely grown, and it must get permission from the planners. Of no difference in “The Planners” Cheng also uses nature and the same language techniques of sibilance o “skies surrender” which is suggesting the buildings are so high that the sky is scared of it. The city gives a feeling of unpleasant but the image of the city seemed to be perfect.
Both poet is starting to introduce to the readers that the city is not as perfect as they have seen, they expresses the feeling of resentment. In “The City Planners” Atwood uses sibilance of “the roofs all display the same slant’ this portrays an imagery of the roof is facing the same way. The words “same slant” which hints that the house is all the same, the image of the house, the direction its facing, and also the lighting is coming from the same way. The surrounding of this place, gives a feeling of boring and lost. Because everything is the same and she cannot recognise where she is and when will the journey is going to finish. In “The Planners’ Cheng uses personification of “The country wears perfect rows of shining