Jones the Grocer and Not to be Used for Babies

The two poems I have chosen to write about are ‘Jones the Grocer’ by Herbert Williams an ‘Not to be used for Babies’ by Harry Webb. Welsh Poets write both of these poems. This essay will explore these poems in detail and identify similarities and differences between the two poems. Jones the Grocer written by Herbert Williams is written in first person Narrative and is about a local tradesman. In the first line of the …

…milk cart as a Zombie electric trolley. Bottles are also used now instead of the bright battered can and there is no extra milk because the bottles are all precisely measured pints. ‘…I buy milk in a tin. It is dry powder. They have ground Glyn’s bones’ It is dry powder is a metaphor describing that the milk is now boring and dry. Also when the narrator says ‘They have ground Glyn’s bones’