I noticed that the two poems were similar, because both of them are about animal cruelty, and they both highlighted the bad points. In ‘The Song of a Whale,’ there are two lines which are repeated twice which is ‘Lipstick for our painted faces,
Polish for our shoes.’ This highlights the fact that whales are used for lipstick and polished.
In ‘A Black Rabbit Dies for its country’ the poems is written in the rabbit’s point of view. It highlights the facts of the process the rabbit goes through in his life, and till he dies. The rabbit talks about how he has never seen the outside world, he tells us how he has been experimented on.
There are also some differences between the two poems. In ‘the song of a whale’, the poem is from the writer speaking to the animal, whereas in, ‘A Black Rabbit Dies for its Country’ the poem is from the animals point of view.
There are also more verses in the first poem than the second.
In ‘A Black Rabbit Dies for its Country’, the poem has a rhyming scheme and has the rhyming sequence of ABBAA. Whereas in ‘The Song of the Whale’ it does not have any of them.
POEM 1
In this poem, I like the line ‘ great whale crying for your life’, because it is very affective, and makes u think.
I also like the line ‘Heavy Mountain’ because it shows how big and strong the whale is.
POEM 2
In this poem I like the line ‘the world’s a cage, although that the cage is small’, because it is telling us the world is huge but at the same time, there is no way out! This line is also from a famous author.
I also like the line ‘ free on the earth, I missed it; though the glass’ because the rabbit is telling us how he missed the real rabbit life, and how he watched it through the glass.
Out of the two poems' I think both were really touching, but I would go for the poem ‘A black Rabbit Dies for its Country' because it was in more detailed, and made me think of how rabbits suffer in the labs.