“Five Ways to Kill a Man” …show more content…
There are many descriptive words used in the poem and the effect they all have on the reader is that in puts an image in the readers mind so they can really visualise what the poet is writing. An example of this is “a plague of rats”, this makes the reader imagine a plague of rats and the horrible living conditions in the First World War.
One sound poetic technique that was used in the poem is alliteration. An example of this is “not to mention black boots, bomb craters” the letter b is repeated. The effect this has on the reader is that it creates an image in the readers mind what World War one must have been like and the terrible living conditions. Another sound technique used was rhyme in the fourth stanza of the poem. The rhyme was “In an age of aeroplanes, you may fly miles above your victim and dispose of him by…” The rhyming words were ‘fly’ and ‘by’ which shows how quickly and effective people can kill each other just in a fly …show more content…
Toddlers love the rhythm and the humour poems can contain, and children skip and jump to rhymes and songs and memorise rules through rhymes and play games with words. Poetry also can develop thinking, as the language in poetry is upside-down, inside-out and in arrangements that people don’t expect. This makes us aware of how language can be used and students realise that there are different ways of saying and that meaning can be conveyed in different ways.
The poem “Five Ways to Kill a Man” is a meaningful poem that reflects on the many ways man has used to kill other men and it also mocks these ways as they have accomplished nothing throughout time. This poem is an example of how poetry presents important ideas to society as people killing other people has and still is an issue in society.
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