Need help analyzing these 2 poems?

into the night:


As you walk out deep into night


feel how the trees are leaning over


to watch you on your way.





Hear dead leaves hiss and crackle


as you twist them underfoot,


as winds whip and shuffle them.





See how each streetlight plays


at being the ultimate


all-too-solemn moon.





Sense that all lighted houses


stand ready, each one waiting


your firm knock on the door.





Know without lifting your eyes


one star up there will burn


Brighter than the rest for you.








Change:


The summer


Still hangs


Heavy and sweet


With sunlight


As it did last year.





The autumn still comes


Showering gold and crimson


As it did last year.





The winter


Still clings


Clean and cold and white


As it did last year.





The spring


Still comes


Like a whisper in the dark night.





It is only I


Who have changed.








i need help comparing these 2 poems, as i'm not really sure what the similarities/differences are. i would greatly appreciate if you could help me, thx in advance =]

Need help analyzing these 2 poems?
In "Into The Night," the poet is encouraging the reader to realize how much a part of everything he is. Stop and hear the sounds of nature. Realize that all men are brothers and neighbors awaiting your knock at their door. And, no matter how self-focused you may be at times, remember that you are made of star-stuff and are as much a part of the universe as the universe is part of you.





In "Change," the poet is more self-centered by making the seasonal comings and goings an almost hum-drum occurrence while thinking only he/she changes. This poem looks at life much more narrowly than the previous poem. Instead of realizing the wonder of the cyclical nature of Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and the nature of how that relates to all of humankind, of which he is a part, he stresses his separation from nature by thinking only he "has changed."
Reply:The first poem is about embracing the here and now.


The second is about looking back and seeing progress in one's life.


The first poem appeals more to the senses.


The second appeals more to the emotions.


The first poem, the reader is the one experiencing these sights and sounds. (second person)


The second poem, it is the author who is experiencing them. (first person)


Both poems use imagery of nature to paint a picture.


Both are unrhyming.