Comparison of The Little Boy Lost and The Little Boy Found :: English Literature

Comparison of The myopic Boy broken and The Little Boy FoundThe Little Boy Lost and The Little Boy Found are two verses that arequite unalike to each other, in the aspect of language used, themesand ideas, and imagery. I shall look at each poem in detail in thisessay, along with the several(predicate) ideas that I get from them.In The Little Boy Lost, the starting time stanza of the poem gives the readerimages of a set about ignoring, possibly abandoning his son and walking remote from him. This stanza is written in first person, to show us howconfused the male sister is. The language the boy uses in the first stanzacould tell us that his father is walking away from him completelyout-of-the-blue, and he does not know what he has done and does notknow why his father is leaving him. In the second stanza, we can trulysee the effects of a myopic boy being lost. The images we get are of ayoung child, alone, with no father there, and wet with dew. Andthe language in the second st anza is the characteristic language describing alost child, scared and crying. But, the vapour in demarcation 4 of thesecond stanza could symbolise a lost and confused child going towardsa light, trying anything to get out of the darkness, and the feelingof loneliness.However, in The Little Boy Found, we can tell from the title that thispoem bequeath be more plausive and positive. In the first stanza, in thefirst two lines, the imagery hasnt changed from A Little Boy Lost, achild lost and crying. But, in the last two lines of this stanza, Godappears to begin with him. This contrasts to The Little Boy Lost because hisfather abandoned him, but God, the scram to all living things comesto find him. And the introduction of the colour white in the darknessextends the idea that this poem will be more optimistic than TheLittle Boy Lost. In the second stanza, God takes the child corroborate to hismother. The childs mother is oblivious to her child being interpreted away,