Compare and contrast Wilfred Owen's 'Futility' and Thom Gunn's 'The Reassurance'

Gunn's 'The Reassurance' and Owen's 'Futility' are thematically apt for comparison as they both focus on death. They will be interesting to compare regarding the causes of death- AIDS and war- being natural or man-made. Structurally, the poems are similar on the page, both being split up into stanzas. Their different uses of rhyming techniques are also useful areas for comparison and contrast, one poet choosing half instead of full-rhyme and the changing the position …

…on 20/04/06 at 17:15 <http://www.1914-18.co.uk/owen/ > Wilfred Owen, Visited on 22/02/06 at 21:50 <http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/Owen2.html> Between the Lines, Interviews with Poets, Viewed on 23/04/06 at 22:19 <http://www.interviews-with-poets.com/thom-gunn/gunn-note.html> BOOKS Keegan, Paul (ed.), The Penguin Book of English Verse, 2004, Penguin Classics: St Ives Lennard, John, The Poetry Handbook, 2005, Second Ed, Oxford University Press: St Ives