Answer the following questions in your journal to help you generate ideas for the essay:
What ideas, images or other elements do these lyrics share? In other words, what is the common ground that allows you to compare them?
In what ways do these poems differ?
What are their formal structures?
Do they use any figures of speech? If so, what are these? (simile, metaphor, hyperbole, etc.)
What is the poet's attitude toward the subject matter of the poem? How do you know?
Your essay should have a clear thesis that asserts more than these poems are alike in some ways and different in others. Don't wait until the night before this paper is due to begin this essay. If you want to bring a draft to office hours, I'd be more than glad to discuss it with you.