Comparison of The Little Boy Lost and The Little Boy Found :: English Literature

Compari discussion of The Little Boy Lost and The Little Boy FoundThe Little Boy Lost and The Little Boy Found ar two poems that arequite different to each other, in the aspect of language used, themesand ideas, and imagery. I shall look at each poem in full point in thisessay, along with the different ideas that I get from them.In The Little Boy Lost, the first stanza of the poem gives the readerimages of a father ignoring, possibly abandoning his son and walkingaway from him. This stanza is written in first person, to show us howconfused the boy is. The language the boy uses in the first stanzacould tell us that his father is walking away from him completelyout-of-the-blue, and he does not know what he has done and does notknow why his father is leaving him. In the plump for stanza, we sack up trulysee the effects of a little boy being lost. The images we get are of ayoung child, alone, with no father there, and wet with dew. Andthe language in the second stanza is the typical language describing alost child, scared and crying. But, the vapour in line 4 of thesecond stanza could symbolise a lost and confused child going towardsa light, trying anything to get out of the darkness, and the feelingof loneliness.However, in The Little Boy Found, we can tell from the title that thispoem will be much optimistic and positive. In the first stanza, in thefirst two lines, the imagery hasnt changed from A Little Boy Lost, achild lost and crying. But, in the last two lines of this stanza, Godappears before him. This contrasts to The Little Boy Lost because hisfather abandoned him, but God, the Father to all living things comesto find him. And the introduction of the colour white in the darknessextends the idea that this poem will be more optimistic than TheLittle Boy Lost. In the second stanza, God takes the child back to hismother. The childs mother is oblivious to her child being interpreted away,