There appears to be overlapping themes running through these poems. Identify the symmetry and divergence, explaining how the poets have used language to emphasise their message. After studying the two poems named ". 38" and "The Hangman"

... English G.C.S.E Coursework Assignment Modern Poetry/Other cultures There appears to be overlapping themes running through these poems. Identify the symmetry and divergence, explaining how the poets have used language to emphasise their message. After studying the two poems named ". 38" and "The Hangman" it has become clear to me that they are both very well written, good, effective poems. The two poems both have short, sharp, attention grabbing titles. Both titles are death related and eye catching, although The Hangman is an actual person who takes lives but the .38 is the name of an object, which takes lives. But you could also see the Hangman as a type of object as he comes across that he just easily takes peoples lives every day and does not care, and does it as if he is a weapon. Not all readers of the poems will know what a .38 is though, until they read

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