The first poem, "Dulce Et Decorum Est" which means "It is sweet and noble" is a very descriptive poem which Owen uses vivid imagery to try to capture the reader's heart. This poem takes place during a war (world war 1) and shows the horror and corruption of war and how death played a major part of life back then. It involves the reader with horror of Wilfred Owen's own experiences as he witnessed everything that went on and wrote an account of it. As the poem progresses, the change in perspective from observation, to narrative description, to personal drama occurs. The poem focuses on death as it slowly occurs in front of his eyes to his fellow comrades. Emotiv

e words are used to make us feel as if we were actually there. "Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! - An ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time," We are given a clear picture of the conditions of the soldier from the first verse. Similes are used to give us a better understanding of the conditions. "Bent double!

Both of these poems, "Dulce Et Decorum Est," and "5 Ways to Kill a Man" both dwell on the same aspects of death but in different manners. Brock looks at the subject of death as a whole whereas Owen focuses on the relationship between war and death. Death is more vivid described in Owen's poem than Brock's because he picks a wartime period to get his message across. War is compared to a devil's sick of sin. In Brock's poem, death is portrayed as less cumbersome as time progresses. Owen's poem is more personal where as Brock's is more generalised. Both poems symbolise that killing and war corrupt the lives and hopes of men, but we are the one's who brought it upon ourselves.

In the second poem, "5 Ways to Kill a Man" Brock uses a different approach in dealing with the subject of death. Instead of stating the horrible stories, he shows it from the perspective of growth in society and how killing a man has become less cumbersome, as man becomes more technologically advanced. It becomes simpler and more direct. He divides the verses into different stages of civilisation starting from Christ, to medieval, warfare (W.W.I/W.W.II), to 20th century life. In this poem, the five ways to kill a man are vividly described and the progression of man is easily noticed in the changes of death. He starts the poem by talking about the religious death similar to

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