"Squares and Angles" Vs. "Little Boxes"

We have read many poems in World Classics, and of all of them, my favorite is has been "Squares and Angles" by Alfonsina Storni. “Squares and Angles” is a poem about conformity and the sadness, or perhaps shock, that it caused Storni. We can maybe think that it caused her sadness and shock because she said, “Yesterday I myself cried a tear, / My God- square” (8-9). Her use of “My God” (9) makes me think that she is shocked to be square, like the rest of the people living in her neighborhood, but it also makes me think that it feels her with dread because why else would she have cried a tear? Maybe it’s because she already knew that she was square, or maybe it is because the shock truly alarmed her.
While I was reading “Squares and Angles” it actually reminded me a lot of “Little Boxes” by Malvina Reynolds. I first heard the song “Squares and Angles” on Showtime’s television series, Weeds. The song is very similar to the poem because they both refer to all the immediate-surrounding houses as being similar to each other. Storni wrote, “Houses in a row, houses in a row, / Houses in a row. / Squares, squares, squares. / Houses in a row” (1-4), and Reynolds wrote, “Little boxes on the hillside, / Little boxes made of ticky tacky, / Little boxes on the hillside, / Little boxes all the same” (1-4). The similarity between the two pieces is very apparent, and it helped me like and understand the poem a little better because I love the song.

And if you're interested, here is a link to "Little Boxes." :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8StRAJCork