Analysis Of Five Ways To Kill A Man

‘Thoughtful insights through history ’A great poetic montage written by a man with a unique view on the killing of humans throughout many centuries. Edwin Brocks, “Five Ways to Kill a Man”, will have you viewing history in an unfamiliar way. Each paragraph referring to how people have been killed throughout each century, with the end inflicting a dark humorous response.

The unique view and invited reading is that, each century has a ironic and certainly cumbersome way to kill a man. It takes us from the time of Jesus to the first atom bombing of Hiroshima, in Japan. Showing us how humanity can kill a huge majority of people in crude and despicable ways. The main idea of this poem is that throughout the years, humanity has found many painful and stupid ways to kill humans, and rather than helping someone in our golden era, we just leave them there to die. The poet has showed us a ridiculed and a very different message which is often not talked about, which is basically saying if we have killed humans like this in the past, why do we not just find a new way to kill them. I find that this message does not comply to human life in the blink of an eye, because actually we help humans everyday whether we know it or not. ‘These …show more content…
The strengths in this poem are dependent on imagery and metaphors, as well as some allusion. This poem was chosen over the thousands of other poems because this one had a very exotic topic, which is definitely not talked about. All these methods to kill people have become very complex and creative over time, and a person born in the twentieth century would have more chance of dying from all these conflicts and disasters that were happening in the twentieth century. The end of this poem makes the reader feel and look back, at how humans have slowly figured out ways of killing people using their creativity for wrong and their revenge for