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Compare the Images of Old Age one gets from the two poems 'Old Man Old man' and 'Warning' From reading both 'Old Man Old Man' and 'Warning' the attitudes and images of old age which the two poems present are completely different to each other. 'Old Man Old Man' describes a man who is becoming old and he doesn't like it "Your Helplessness, you who hate being helpless" whereas in 'Warning' the old lady is really looking forward to the freedom of old age, "You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat". 'Old Man Old Man' puts forward all the down sides of becoming old, such as losing your independence "He was always a man who did it himself", loosing your eyesight "he left for himself when he saw better", losing your memory "I've lost the hammer" and loosing your mind "Now you ramble in your talk around London districts,...

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