Tamer N Hawk Essay Example

lines or regular or equal rhythm. In addition, there is no metre as well.

Similar to that of poem A, it creates the effect whereby the war scene described by the persona is too ghastly and appalling that the persona probably could not think straight while recounting so.

The message that is needed to be put across, both in reference to the theme of war, is being portrayed starkly in different ways. For poem A, it is from a first person perspective – the persona is actually involved in the war. ‘”I’ll do ‘em in,” he whined. “If this hand’s spared,// I’ll murder them, I will. ”’ in the first stanza.

Therefore, it offers a singularity of perspective. It is like a written representation of the persona’s inner thoughts, impressions, and memories of the war as if directly ‘overheard’. The term is often loosely used as a synonym for stream of consciousness. In contrast to poem B, it is majorly written through a third person perspective, like as though the persona is a narrator.

Narration is the act of giving an account. The persona seemed as though he is describing the “sixteen million men” as killers as if it is their only goal in life which is to execute.

One advantage of omniscience and having the persona tell the scene of the war in terms of a third-person perspective is that, this mode enhances the sense of objective reliability, for example, truthfulness, of the war scene. “And the sixteen million are killing . .

. and killing // and killing” depicts how gruesome and morbid a battle could be. Both style and language relate correspondingly

to the structure of each respective poem by shaping the way in which the poem should be treated and the impression it gives of the persona.

Poem A in its unrhymed verse of several irregular stanzas is interesting and comes across to be a fairly panicked and disorganised situation and it also attributes a pessimistic tone to the overall poem in its macabre and gruesome scene.

Poem B, in its irregular structure of six stanzas is less interesting, but powerful in its representation of its theme. Abject in its sullen and mildly patronising in its tone, the poem’s structure leads to an even more serious and contemplative atmosphere to a poem steeped in its wicked tone.