Old Man Old Man by U.A.Fanthrope and Warning by Jenny Joseph

I am going to be writing about two poems "old man old man" and

"warning". In old man, old man the poet U.A Fanthorpe relates old age

to a loss of freedom e.g. a timetabled cigarette.

The stanzas are always written in three lines in Old man old man. Old

man old man is a very bad or negative view on old age as he is always

talking about what he used to do "a dab hand with the black and

Decker". He is an anonymous person who is totally explained in the

title "old man old man" this emphasises his old age.

As you get older, your body does not work as well for some as you

start to have heart problems and lung problems and in "old man old

man". He has to take pills but he does not like doing this and he

fights from doing it "Recalcitrant things in bottles with tacky

labels". He used to be independent "He was always a man who did it

himself" and he still wants to be, but he has to take pills to stay

alive.

There are a few qualities of being old in the poem. If you are old

like the anonymous man you do not have a worry in the world because

you have no job you have to turn up to and nine o'clock or whenever.

You have no business to run and all you have to worry about is to get

the local paper every week and go shopping this is all that the have

to worry about or something like that.

The other story is Warning this is totally the opposite of "old man

old man".

Jenny Joseph who is not old yet "when I am old" has written a poem the

stanzas are free stanzas and the poem is not stereo typical. There are

also no set number of lines.

Jenny Joseph Is longing to break out of the restricted life she lives

as she lives a life of rules and she is not rude or does not do

anything out of the ordinary. Jenny Joseph does not want to turn in to

a boring old granny like most of them do.

She says to her husband, "you can grow fatter and eat a lb of sausages

and heaud bear mats and other stuff like that". She says that she will

become a "rebel" "I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves

summer gloves are trivelelous items (a luxury)

When jenny thinks about being old she thinks of all the things that

she can do and leave all of the bad things behind you, and do all of