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Compare and contrast the poem "Old Man, Old Man" by U A Fanthorpe to the poem "Warning" by Jenny Joseph. Both were written in the twentieth century and were chosen as their theme, old age, links them together.
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"Compare and Contrast Two Poems in the Twentieth Century" I am going to compare and contrast the poem "Old Man, Old Man" by U A Fanthorpe to the poem "Warning" by Jenny Joseph. Both were written in the twentieth century and were chosen as their theme, old age, links them together. We learn in the poem "old Man, Old Man" that the old man was a do it yourself type of character, and by the phrase "small recalcitrant things in bottles" we can assume that he needs to take medication and by the word "recalcitrant" we can learn that he has trouble getting them out of the bottle. In the second stanza we learn that his eyesight is deteriorating "clues he left for himself when he could see better" and his hands a little unsteady " his hands shamble along" also little things frustrate him like I've lost the hammer" He used...
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