A comparison of First Ice by Andrey Voznesensky and Manwatching by Georgia Garrett.

upset and angry, she feels betrayed but she in more experienced in relationships than the girl in first ice and she knows how to handle the pain. I think that there is a lot more emotion in First Ice than there is in Manwatching and I think this is because the girl in First Ice is younger than the one in Manwatching and it is her first time getting hurt in a relationship so she is more vulnerable and doesn’t know how to handle it  where as the girl in Manwatching seems to be able to handle the pain more and there is less expressed emotion in the description of her attitude throughout the poem which is probably because she seems to be used to this kind of thing happening to her. Both girls are a stereotype because it could and does happen to so many girls and boys. Both poems are about rejection and betrayal but although they both have similar themes, the atmospheres are different. In "Manwatching" by Georgia Garrett, the feeling is of anger and betrayal whereas in "First Ice" by Andrei Voznesensky the feelings were of hurt and loneliness. In "Manwatching" a girl is at a party. She is watching her boyfriend looking at another girl. The Girl is watching the two people flirting and feeling angry and betrayed. In "First Ice" It is describing the moment after a girl has been rejected by a partner. It doesn't tell you anything about how the rejection came about, it describes the girl and the feeling of coldness and loneliness. I think the reason that the girl in first ice expresses more feelings of loneliness than the girl in Manwatching is because the girl in   first ice is actually all alone in a dark environment where as the girl in Manwatching is at a party with lots of people and the environment is more of a happy and lively one. The titles of both poems are in context. They don't lead you to think that what happens is going to happen for example the words first ice would generally imply that the poem is about the seasons or something like that but I think that the author was very clever to associate the words first ice with the first pain of relationships because ice is cold and hard and I think that it associates the harshness of the seasons with the harshness of getting hurt in a relationship.