David Whyte's Working Together is a poem that portrays how humans are affected, shaped, related to, and involved in the world. In his poem, David makes it clear to depict how the world is so quick to shape and define and help us be the person we would like to be. Working together has central message of happiness despite racism, social classes or occupations. This poem also stresses that most of us are constantly striving to achieve our intangibles, but they're intangibles for a reason and we shouldn't aim for that. We shouldn't let society shape us repeatedly over and over again, but to solve that by creating our own flight with our own set of wings accomplishing greater things that define our true selves.
Everything is Going to be Alright is a poem that depicts the positive in every negative situation. Individuals are in fact going to experience rough times, but in the end, things resolve and everything is okay in the end. I have a hard time getting around “There will be dying, there will be dying". To me it casts all the brightness of the poem under a shadow of darkness and ambiguity. This poem to me has a strong influence on people and they way they reevaluate their thinking about situations when all darkness is surrounding them. I think it’s so true about making decisions when you are younger, the import of which you don’t realize until very much later. The poem overall gives me a negative vibe, but just reading the words "everything is going to be alright" changed my attitude for it completely.
These two poems are both so similar in which they both shift from the negative and positive aspects of life and how they affect us all, but are different in thr way that they achieve different goals and depict for totally different themes. Both authors of the two poems relate the surroundings of individuals focusing on a whole to individuals David Whyte uses this purpose to illustrate how the world shapes the person we are and want to be. We constantly always follow what society has instore for us and what's the best of the best to be and look like. On the other hand, Derek Mahon portrays through the poem on how it to relate the atmosphere to the fate of the individual and the outcome of it whether it be beneficial or costly.
Another unique similarity between the two poems is how the author achieves its purpose and goal by using the end of the poem to summarize the point they are trying to get across to their audience and readers. In “Everything is Going to be Alright.”, Mahon ends his poem with the theory that everything will be okay in the end no matter how difficult life may be, there's always a bright side and light to look forward to. In "Working Together", Whyte ends his poem with “…by forming it well to the great intangibles about us,” which concludes the poem with the idea that our surroundings shape who we are as individuals and those intangibles are what we as individuals strive for. Both of the authors use similar tactics to getting their points across to the audience but contain totally opposite themes and points. Its easy to compare and contrast them, but when you dig deeper and deeper into poems the meaning of such lines or words you once read could completely change.
All in all, reflecting back to the question is if I thought all poems were created alike then a simple no could always answer the questions. Poems are such powerful pieces of art that people from every different level and place in the world can create or relate on together. Poems have no set structure, that comes with the imagination and effort you put into it. Such poems like "Working Together" by David Whyte and "Everything is Going to be Alright" by Derek Mahon, depending on how you look at it, can be so differently and exactly the same at the same time. The way you perceive the work is going to determine what you get out of it. All poems are created differently and that's the most interesting and powerful thing about them, just like human beings ourselves.
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