Comparison of “The Soldier” and “Why Patriots Are Nuts In The Head”
The soldier was written in ww1 and the language used to formal e.g. “concealed” rather than “hidden”. The second poem was written more recently and uses informal language “yobbo” and “belly”.
I think both poems, “why patriots are nuts in the head” and “the soldier” are important. Both poets use a range of vocabulary telling us they put effort in. the soldier describes death war very little but describes death. On the other hand, the second poem describes war like hell saying “belly shot away” and it says you rot on the corner of a field next to a soldier. This tells me that death is awaiting you as soon as you join the army. He is serious about the poem as he cares about people and he wants to save their lives so he exaggerates war like a horror in order to save people. The soldier is serious about the poem as he wants to be remembered, he wants to show everyone his love for Britain. He doesn’t want to be another soldier who gets forgotten in history. He wants to express his love for god in order to go into heaven so he has to be taking the poem seriously.’
