Topic > Comparison between Peter Scher's farewell and an Irish airman...

From line 9 to 16, the length of each line tends to lengthen and then shorten. The last words at the end of lines 10, 12, and 14 show how the speaker is at a point in his life where he is on a precipice. like “crowd, clouds and breath” express the feeling of being overwhelmed. As if the aviator's plane is out of balance and he can't control what happens next. This is actually similar to Lichtenstein's poem, even the layout of the poem is the same as it stretches and then cuts again. The words that spoke the most were “cement, iron, tomb and fire”; which is seen as the last line of 3, 6, 8 and 9. Again, it is another thing to keep in mind that these represent the state of overwhelm when the speaker has to go to war. Both poems show that when read aloud they have a similar image. Both Yeats and Lichtenstein mention the sky in their poetry, although they talk about it from different perspectives. “Goodbye for Peter Scher” spoke of the sky as if it were on the ground and looking up. “The sun sets on the horizon. Soon I will be thrown into a gentle mass grave. The beautiful red of the evening burns in the sky” (8-10). It is important to pay close attention to this quote because of its double meaning. Line 8 has a deeper meaning than just the image of the sun. The meaning of “sun” represents light, hope and humanity. Like it