Out of the 100-plus poems you find in Backpack Literature, select two poems, by different poets, that deal with the same subject (family, love, money, the weather, death, etc.). Compare and contrast them, finding similarities or differences in – for example — their tone, imagery, rhythm/meter and rhyme, diction, denotation and connotation, and figures of speech.
Compare and contrast John Milton’s “When I consider how my light is spent” and Seamus Heaney’s “Diggin.”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44750/sonnet-19-when-i-consider-how-my-light-is-spent
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47555/digging
