A Comparison of “the Song of the Whale” and “ a Black Rabbit Cies For Its Country”

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ROOPAL DHANOTA                                                               9 JUNE 01                                                              

A COMPARISON OF “THE SONG OF THE WHALE” AND “ A BLACK RABBIT CIES FOR ITS COUNTRY”

In my essay, I am going to compare the poems, ‘The Song of the Whale’ by Kit Wright, and ‘A Black Rabbit Dies for its Country’ by Gavin Edwart.

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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 ...

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