Wrap-up

These four poems all share a general theme of change, yet at the same time each poet is writing about different views and forms of change. __Nothing Gold Can Stay__ speaks of spring time, of the coming of life and its sacredness after the long winter months, yet how over time the special will always inevitable loses its sheen, changing in the eyes of the viewer, becoming the ordinary while __A Poem in Five Chapters__ is about the our natural opposition to changes in life. One is referring to unavoidable change while the other about changes often being met with resistance. Both are different standpoints yet both are about change and what comes with it.

__Ethics__ and __Picnic, Lightning__ again is a case of two interesting poems with a common theme yet differing messages. __Ethics__ is about the internal changes that occur when growing up and the latter, of refusal to move on in life when faced with a difficult change and despite unwillingness to do so, how the world will nevertheless continue on with or without you. These four works I found to be really telling to the diversity poems can come in even when restricted to a single theme like change and how at the same time, despite the differences on the surface, they all share the same core principles, ones we have all experienced ourselves.