Compare and Contrast From the Motorway and The Pylons :: English Literature

Compare and Contrast From the Motorway and The PylonsThe poems From the Motorway and The Pylons both share the same(p)similarities between their subject matter, themes and heavy, howeverthe writes use different literary techniques to admit their message.The two poems warn the reader about the spreading of modern urbanlife. From the Motorway states how man has made Britain uniformly dulland removed her beauty.asleep in the promise of beingnowhere any(prenominal)one would like to get toThis adduce shows places that assume not been touched by the growth ofthe motorways and how quaint and tranquil they are.this dwarfs our emerald bucolic by its trekThis quote fromThe Pylons tells the reader how the pylons aretravelling across the country, not realising the damage they cause.However From the Motorway has amore jovial tone and uses a part ofirony to include humourBritain is mending her desertThis is ironic because Britain is actually devising herself into adesert and destroying ra ther than mending. The Pylons has a moreserious tone instantaneously over these hills they have built the concreteThat trails black wirePylonsThis quote explains how the hills were peaceful until the pylons hadtaken over and that the land had been desecrated by concrete, whichwas not of the natural ground.The body structure of The Pylons is of five stanzas, each of four lines,each stanza with a change in mood.That turned on jerky hidden villages.Now over these small hills, they have built the concreteThe last line of the commencement stanza is describing a peaceful village ,part of the countryside and the first line of the morsel stanza tellsthe reader of the desecration of the stone, the tone completelyshifting. From the Motorway has a structure that is all in onesentence so that it sounds like the on-going motorwayamongrich and ragged, sprinter and staggererThis quote simulates traffic using unpronounceable alliteration.In the beginning of The Pylons, the fist stanza is an alm ost dreamlocation in the marrow of the country, before they were destroyedThe secret of these hills was stone, and cottagesOf that stone madeThese first two lines sound biblical. The hills are as if they hadbeen in this way forever and the cottages had been made in equilibriumwith them, of the local natural stone.And crumbling roadsThat turned on sudden hidden villagesThe villages and roads had been made without changing the landscape inany way the villages so in tune with nature that they were part ofthe landscape, and could curtly appear round a corner on a slowcountry road.The beginning of From the Motorway is more upbeat.