Comparative Essay Between Mcmxiv And Six Young Men

Philip Larkin is named MCMXIV; through-out this poem Larkin describes war in a sarcastic manner, playing on the fact that the reader knows what happens next and using the implicit to bring out the horror. Superficially, this poem is about innocence, before war, about how life was, but deeply we will see that it for-shadows the war and how shocking that will be for the reader, how helpless it will make him feel. The second poem we shall be studying is a poem named Six Young Men, written by Ted Hughes