Extra Credit Assignment #1

Poets use their own imagination and creativity in the poems. However, poems are sometimes re-written such as "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" by William Shakespeare which was again written by Howard Moss. Although both of these poems written by two completely different poets are telling the same story, the way the poets use their own creativity really brings forth a different meaning in their poems. In Shakespeare's original poem, he uses his creativity more on the nature of the summer's day, "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May." (3) Moving forward to Moss's creativity in his poem, I believe that Moss used his imagination and creativity in his poem but focuses more on the reader and talks to his reader in his poem, "After you're dead and gone,/In this poem you'll live on!" (12-13) Both of these poems have the same meaning towards a summer day but due to the different style of poets writing the same poem, their creativity and imagination brings forth two completely different poems.