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Compare the way old age is treated in the poems "Old man, old man" and "Warning" In this essay I will discuss how 'old man, old man' and 'warning' address the theme of growing old. 'Old man, old man' tells the story of an old man's life through flashbacks. It is about the changing relationship between parent and child. Whereas warning looks at adulthood and old age, it discusses all the things the speaker will do when she is old and all the things she does as an adult that she doesn't like doing. 'Old man, old man' is about a man getting older and what old age has done to him. There are two speakers in this poem, the daughter and the father. The poem is written in past and present tense: " He was always a man who did it himself", the past tense in the poem tells...

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