W.D. Snodgrass's "Disposal" is filled with plenty of imagery, but it lacks the complex issues of John Lennon and Paul McCartney's "Eleanor Rigby." Both the poem and the lyric deal with the issue of people who most likely spent their lives being lonely and shut out from the world; however Snodgrass focuses on just the one woman rather than lonely people in general. The authors have their own way of getting across a similar …
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…it isn't as obvious. Instead, you can hear alliteration throughout the song. Consonance of the "L" sound is echoed in the line "Ah, Look at all the lonely people." There are small samples of alliteration in "Disposal" with the use of "F" as well. While "Disposal" and "Eleanor Rigby" both take wasted, lonely lives as their subject, Lennon and McCartney's vision of loneliness is complicated by hinting at deeper issues of the church and humanity.