‘Read the two poems on this page. Then answer the questions comparing the two. THE BIRD OF NIGHT A shadow is floating through the moonlight. Its wings don’t make a sound. Its claws are long, its beak i bright. Its eyes try all the comers of the night. It calls and calls: all the air swells and heaves And washes up and down like water. ‘The ear that listens to the owl believes In death. The bat beneath the eaves, ‘The mouse beneath the stone are still as death, ‘The owl’s air washes them like water, ‘The owl goes back and forth inside the night. And the night holds its breath, Randall Jarrett Source: “The Bt of Nuh 1969 by Randal Jarl fom he tok THE BAT FOET bled ty Mica! Cape skp ane Plies: erin 20 THE BAT By day the bat is cousin to the mouse, He likes the attic of an aging house, His fingers make a hat about his heed. His pulse beat is so slow we think him dead, He loops in crazy figures half the night Among the trees that face the comer light. But when he brushes up against a screen, We are afiaid of what our eyes have seen: For something is amiss or out of place ‘When mice with wings can wear a human face Theodore Roethke Sow: "The Ba coi 1838 by Toe Rowe, fom THE Coutecten roen® OF THEboORE ROETtie ty Tortie Rowe Vel bypemison af Deby» vison of Reno, PLEASE GO ONTO THE NEXT PAGE