The Landlord vs. Miss Gee

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English

 

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Mary L

 

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February 4, 2012

 

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University

 

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Langston Hughes's and W. H. Auden's poems "Ballad of the Landlord" and "Miss Gee" exhibit each author's ability to employ the use of a traditional poetic form to tell a fanciful yet haunting story of characters whose initial qualities are comedic and simple. Both poems are similar in that they are ballads, they rhyme, and they both end in tragedy; however the tragic outcomes for each of the stories characters are as different as the authors who wrote them and the variations on the style they chose to tell these stories...
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Both poems are similar in that they are ballads, they rhyme, and they both end in tragedy; however the tragic outcomes for each of the stories characters are as different as the authors who wrote them and the variations on the style they chose to tell these stories. In order to understand how the form of Hughes's "Ballad of the Landlord" and Auden's "Miss Gee" affect the topics of the poems, it is important to know what a ballad is in terms of poetry...
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