Aloha readers and welcome back to my blog! Today Lily M & I have compeleted this poerty task that was about 5 ways to kill a man by Edrick Brock, I've learnt alot and in the first santaza it teaches sus about how Jesus had crufuiced for our sins it was really fun learning and I really enjoyed it, here is our compeleted task with the poem you can read some of our questions and answers.
Five Ways to Kill a Man
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.
There are, as I began, cumbersome ways
to kill a man. Simpler, direct, and much more neat
is to see that he is living somewhere in the middle
of the twentieth century, and leave him there.
(Edwin Brock)
What is the event referenced in the first stanza? The first stanza is talking about the crucification of Jesus Christ. The method the soldiers used to totrue him and kill him was used as the word cumbersome. A whole crowd watched him being forced to carry a cross all the way to the hill where he was nailed to the cross and died.
What does the word cumbersome mean? In the poem it was used as something big and strong that was supposed to totrue and kill Jesus
What historical event is referred to in the second stanza? King Authur’s Journey
What item is ‘the metal cage he wears’? Metal amour
What does the word banquet mean? A formal meal for people to eat as such as a party
What world event does the third stanza talk about? World war 1
What does the phrase ‘dispensing with nobility’ mean? The quality of being a noble character.
What world changing event is mentioned in the fourth stanza? Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagaasaki during WW2.
What does the last stanza mean? Describing troublesome ways in which to kill men. But the simpler and cleaner way would be to let them live in the 1950s, because mankind can destroy themselves.
What ways to kill a man might the poet mean as being ‘simple, direct and much more neat’? Poverty, Inflation, Hunger, Unemployment and malnutrition.
