Question

PLEASE HELP! Read the diary entry and poem and answer the questions below......

Answer 1

Question 1: The topic of the 2 texts different by how the 1st story was 3rd person and the 2nd story was 1st person.

Question 2: The themes of the story are different by how saying the first story was talking about clouds and being like it while the 2nd story was how the person was walking near the lake and how geese were looking at him.

Answer 2

Question #1:
-Although both texts share much similarities with a reoccurring reminder of isolation, their topics differentiate in point of view. In the first text, the narrator symbolizes in a third-person view as a cloud "That floats on high o'er vales and hills." (Wordsworth) However, in "The Friends That Don't Talk to Me", the speaker is him/herself as "[he/her] walked alone all the way around the lake near my house." (?)

Question #2:
-The two texts share a common theme as they both start neutral in loneliness and end up cheek in tongue with a happy ending. Despite this, both have slight contrasts in theme: The first text observes "others" with much symbolism in poetry, sending a somewhat clear message of how loneliness can open the eyes in the beauty of the world. The second theme is more straight forward as it seems to state loneliness is only temporary.