Practicing Synthesis

Prompt

Compare or Contrast two pieces’ symbols of death impact on the thematic meaning of each piece: how does each author use these symbols to make thematic statements, and what are those statements?  

Word Bank

whereas, but, yet, on the other hand, however, nevertheless, on the contrary, by comparison, compared to, although, conversely, meanwhile, after all, in contrast

Symbol, theme, represent, illustrate, evokes, creates, central conflict, plot, speaker, narrator, poem, short story, metaphor, unreliable narrator, suspense, horror, grief, fear, anger, humane, personify, body, violation, 

Joyce Sutphen's "The Exorcism" and Gottfried Benn's "Beautiful Youth"

Charting Similarities  (Extracting points by lining up similar evidence)

“The Exorcism”	“Beautiful Youth”	Comparison point
“the smallest tooth of wickedness” (24) – last line of poem	“a bower under the diaphragm” (4)
“It was homemade and primitive” (1)	“the lot of them” (11)
“their fleshy hands” (11)	“the little muzzles’ oinks” (12)