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 role the samesimilarities between their subject matter, themes and tone, howeverthe writes use different literary techniques to convey 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 anyone would like to get toThis quote shows places that have not been touched by the growth ofthe motorways and how quaint and tranquil they are.this dwarfs our emerald country by its trekThis quote fromThe Pylons tells the reader how the pylons aretravelling across the country, not realising the damage they cause. but From the Motorway has a more(prenominal) jovial tone and uses a lot ofirony to include humourBritain is mending her desertThis is ironic because Britain is actually making herself into adesert and destroying kinda than mending. T he Pylons has a moreserious toneNow 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 field had been desecrated by concrete, whichwas not of the natural ground.The structure of The Pylons is of five stanzas, each of four forces,each stanza with a change in mood.That turned on emergent hidden villages.Now over these small hills, they have built the concreteThe last line of the first stanza is describing a peaceful village ,part of the countryside and the first line of the second 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 current motorwayamongrich and ragged, sprinter and staggererThis quote simulates traffic using unpronounceable alliteration.In the beginning of The Pylons, the fist stanza is an almost dreamlocation in the middle of the co untry, ahead 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 suddenly appear round a corner on a windycountry road.The beginning of From the Motorway is more upbeat.