The other four sources may be the same sources you cited in your second and third essays. Your challenge consists not in gathering new research material but in re-thinking the importance of what you have already learned. Develop a thesis that speaks to the preponderance of similarities or differences between the poetry of the two authors you studied. Organize your answers in order of importance. Build to a climax your various questions and answers so that the final question is most important.
Research is driven by inquiry, the desire to understand something.
You must write to stimulate the reader's curiosity by re-creating the process of discovery that your research revealed. The instructions below are from last semester. Review them to refresh your memory. Narrowly speaking, comparisons show how things are similar and contrasts show how things are different. A special form of comparison, analogy , looks for similarities between two essentially dissimilar things.