I am going to be comparing and contrasting “Moon” by Emily Dickinson and “Moons” by John Haines. I will be focusing on the view of the poem, how they were written in two entirely different perspectives; negative (Haines) and positive (Dickinson).
In the first stanza, Haines starts off somewhat positive saying, “There are moons like continents,” talking about how if it was a nice night the moon could be viewed as continents and goes on to tell that when the moon starts to diminish you might see a “white stone” in the “fog-bound ocean” of the sky. Dickinson wrote, “The moon was but a chin of gold.” She talks about the moon being of gold, a female with a perfect face looking upon the world.
Haines goes on to say, “Equinotical moon,
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