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The Long Voyage And Breathes There The Man Poems: Compare/Contrast The love or hatred for one’s country has been placed in works of writing throughout the ages. Two examples of this can be found in two poems titled “The Long Voyage” and “Breathes There The Man.” In “Man,” the author portrays a person who does not love his country and rather would concentrate on himself than give to the land he lives on. In “Voyage,” the author portrays the complete opposite. Here, he speaks in first-person of loving his country with relief and tranquility. “Voyage,” due to its tone, the use of the senses, and sentence structure is the better poem. “Man,” on the other hand, has poor sentence structure, fails to use the senses, and the tone of the poem leaves the reader confused and hopeless. When the reader first reads “Breathes There The Man,” he may find himself short of breath. The reason for this is the choppy sentence structure and the overuse of commas. The sentences just do not flow. Instead the reader constantly finds himself short of breathe for the extremely long sentences, with constant pauses for the over twenty-five commas used in this sixteen poem, author, reader, sentence, senses, tone, long, country, within, voyage, structure, stanza, speaks, sense, read, person, instead, himself, each, commas, understand, two, short, sentences, relief, portrays, poems, man, love, just, gives