Select two poems from the list provided in the project. using these two poems, write a clear, concise, 250-word essay that compares and contrasts them. make sure you include at least two of the following to support your thesis: tone, point of view, literary devices, or meter.

Compare and contrast "Tell Me, O Swan" by Kabir and "The Swan" by Rilke.

Both poems use the swan as a symbol. In the Kabir poem, the swan is seen as a kind of mystery. The poet questions the swan ("From what land do you come / O Swan? to what shore will you fly?") as a way of addressing certain mysteries of life itself. Like the swan, perhaps, each of us is on a journey to an unknown "shore."

Rilke, on the other hand, is a bit more explicit. The swan is the focus of a simile: the "laboring" of humans is like the "lumbering gait" of the swan on land. The image suggests that life is ungainly, awkward, difficult.

This difference suggests a difference in tone and in the relationship of the poet to the subject of the poem. For Kabir, the tone is expressive of a kind of ecstatic truth: the poet tells the swan to "awake, arise, follow me" because the poet can lead the swan to paradise ("where the terror of Death is no more"). In this sense, the Kabir poem is explicitly religious in a way the Rilke poem is not. Rilke seems to address a specific person who faces death

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Focus on the Themes. Show how two poems have similar or different themes such as romantic love, death or courage.

Examine the Mood and Tone. Two poems by the same author can have similar or different moods and tones.

Study Imagery in Both Poems.

Evaluate the Language, Style and Format.

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The US's declaration of war against Spain in 1898.

Explanation:

Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst were the journalist of the New York World and the New York Journal respectively.

Both the media tried to compete with each other by printing false stories. This later came to be known as "Yellow Journalism".

in 1895-1898, Cuba demanded its independence and the Cuban Revolt began. Journalists such as Pulitzer and Hearst started printing fake stories.

In 1898, American naval ship named "Maine" sank in Harbor Havana. The reporters of Hearst blamed Spanish for the sinking of the ship without having any evidence to prove their claim.

The stories written by Pulitzer and Hearst not directly but in an indirect way was considered to be the reason of the US-Spain war in 1898.