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Compare and contrast the two poems 'Slough' and 'No More Hiroshimas' In this essay, I will aim to compare and contrast the two poems Slough by John Betjeman and No More Hiroshimas by James Kirkup. In the poem Slough, the poet urges bombers to destroy Slough. He feels the town has no value - 'mess up the mess they call a town' and that men who profit from cramped housing conditions deserve to be punished. The poet thinks that not everyone is to blame - 'spare the bald young clerks' - but has the opinion that having eaten too much artificial food, the humans in this town have become artificial themselves. In the final verse, the poet states the earth would be put to better use planting cabbages. The poem No More Hiroshimas is similar to Slough in that it is about bombs, but here the atom bomb has already...

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