There are many cumbersome ways to kill a man.
You can make him carry a plank of wood
To the top of a hill and nail him to it.
To do this
Properly you require a crowd of people
Wearing sandals, a cock that crows, a cloak
To dissect, a sponge, some vinegar and one
Man to hammer the nails home.
Or you can take a length of steel,
Shaped and chased in a traditional way,
And attempt to pierce the metal cage he wears.
But for this you need white horses,
English trees, men with bows and arrows,
At least two flags, a prince and a
Castle to hold your banquet in.
Dispensing with nobility, you may, if the wind
Allows, blow gas at him. But then you need
A mile of mud sliced through with ditches,
Not to mention black boots, bomb craters,
More mud, a plague of rats, a dozen songs
And some round hats made of steel.
In an age of aeroplanes, you may fly
Miles above your victim and dispose of him by
Pressing one small switch. All you then
Require is an ocean to separate you, two
Systems of government, a nation's scientists,
Several factories, a psychopath and
Land that no one needs for several years.
These are, as I began, cumbersome ways
To kill a man. Simpler, direct, and much more neat
Is to see that he lives somewhere in the middle
Of the twentieth century, and leave him there.
Good poem. But why would you need half the items in each list when the person your fighting will, inadvertently, provide half of the said listed materials?
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Areeba Shakir-(areeba.shakir@hotmail.com, 670 - days ago
Hello.Please edit summ ary of the poem"Five Ways to kill a Man'
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Guest, 571 - days ago
this poem is about human destruction through the ages. first stanza is jesus's crusifiction, 2nd is with the whole thing about knights on horses with them rod things, 3rd is world war one, 4th world war 2 and last, about through it all, man is itself, its greatest threat. -man made these weapons of destruction, becoming morally and spiritually corrupt etc. -science for destruction or development?(cures to sickness etc)
Guest, 385 - days ago
this poem is about how humanity has become more technologically advanced, each time we have war in the poem it is more powerful and how we don't use technology to aid humanity, we use it to kill each other instead.People are not respecting human life as much as we should and if we continue to develop new weapons which are more destructive, eventually it will lead to the destruction humankind.
Good poem. But why would you need half the items in each list when the person your fighting will, inadvertently, provide half of the said listed materials?
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Hello.Please edit summ ary of the poem"Five Ways to kill a Man'
.Put some analysis of this poem
this poem is about human destruction through the ages. first stanza is jesus's crusifiction, 2nd is with the whole thing about knights on horses with them rod things, 3rd is world war one, 4th world war 2 and last, about through it all, man is itself, its greatest threat. -man made these weapons of destruction, becoming morally and spiritually corrupt etc. -science for destruction or development?(cures to sickness etc)
this poem is about how humanity has become more technologically advanced, each time we have war in the poem it is more powerful and how we don't use technology to aid humanity, we use it to kill each other instead.People are not respecting human life as much as we should and if we continue to develop new weapons which are more destructive, eventually it will lead to the destruction humankind.