Both Colquhoun and Turner convey ideas of grief and loss in their texts. They use similes to allow the reader to visualise the depressed state that both writers are in, and feel the ongoing melancholic emotions they are feeling. However Colquhouns melancholic tone towards his loss lasts throughout his piece, whereas Turners melancholic mood develops into acceptance by the end of his piece.
n Lament Colquhoun uses similes in the beginning of his poem like "the front door trembles like a lip" and "run off from my roof looks like hair blown wild against the wind". These to similes are also an extended metaphor, the house parts he is describing are actually his reaction to Bucks death. Colquhoun feels trapped, he feels as if there is no way out of his depressed mournful state. At the end of the poem Colquhoun includes the simile "seagulls flock like angels in the distance". This showcases Colquhoun is still waiting for Buck to return one day, wishing to him once more.
Turner uses the simile "and like the sea mist, the memory of her dream passed from her mind." This dream was her fantasy of being reunited with her father, something she has longed to happen. In the final lines of the prose Turner writes the metaphor "Her tears had come from the salt ocean. It could have them back. It could swallow them up, for she needed them no more." The character has accepted her fathers disappearance, she has cried for long enough now its time to move on.
I feel that I resonate with Turner more. The prose develops from grief to acceptance, this shows the character wants to move on rather than stay stuck in a rut. The poem seems like the character doesn't want to change. Dreamer plots the story of an emotional change stirring inspiration within the reader.
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