The book Slaughterhouse Five and the poem “Requiem”,both by Kurt Vonnegut feature the destructiveness of war as a prevalent theme. Both works address this theme in different ways. It is addressed more literally and explored more in depth in Slaughterhouse Five due to the nature of it being a book and having more length to explore its themes. In “Requiem” the theme is addressed more metaphorically and in ways that are more open to interpretation. In addition to this, the way the theme is presented in the poem has many similarities with the way it’s presented in the book, and in many cases,reinforces these themes and shed more light on Vonnegut’s point of view. In Slaughterhouse Five the theme of the destructiveness of war is presented in many
