Compare two of the poems that we’ve read, showing how they’re either similar or different. In so doing, use the comparison you’re making to show new ideas about the two poems. A sample thesis might look like:

a. “Although Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘How Do I Love Thee’ and John Keats’ ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ appear to have little in common, in reality both poems make arguments about the nature of time.”