Poetry Comparison

Poetry isn't done the same way nor do they have to have similar ideas, but it's funny to see how similar poems can be to each other when you analyze them. For example the poem that my group analyzed was "Everything is Going to be Alright"- by Derek Mahon, but when we were going over what we  wanted to do our essays on and we decided on "Where the Sidewalk Ends"- by Shel Silverstein. If you would have noticed the titles seem like total polar opposites, one is talking about continuing no matter what while the other one sounds like there is going to be an end of the road. These two poems have a lot of things in common like the message they are trying to get through to people, and the desire for something better and perseverance.
I feel that Mahon's poem had the message or idea of what his poem was going to be about in the title while in the second poem you actually have to go out of your way and try to look for what the author means by "Where the Sidewalk Ends". At first I thought that the poem had something to do with death but it wasn't until I broke down the poem that I started to realize some similarities. They are both positive even though I still feel that the second one is talking about death. I feel both of these are motivating and reassuring because of the author's tone and when they use lines like,"and the far cities are beautiful and bright" which is from, "Everything is Going to be Alright" and "And there the sun burns crimson bright" from "Where the Sidewalk Ends". Like I mentioned before I feel like its motivating the reader to try to go further or at least to notice the beauty in our surroundings.  In hope of taking as much as you  can get out of life.
Although I'm not saying that they're trying to give you the same message. The messages might be positive and relatively close but I feel like "Where the Sidewalk Ends" talks more about how you should enjoy the present as much as you can get because we are all going to die at a point but me will only be able to take with us our memories and what we learned to the grave. That's why I feel like the author mentioned youth in the end because usually those are the most memorable, fun, or happiest times of someones life.