Poetry Analysis – Compare and Contrast

Metallica – One
Redgum – I Was Only 19
T H E E F F E C T S O F WA R P H Y S I C A L LY A N D
M E N TA L LY O N C O M B ATA N T S
“Hold my breath as I wish
for death.
Oh please god, wake me”
Darkness Landmine has
imprisoning me taken my sight
All that I see Taken my speech
Absolute horror Taken my hearing
I cannot live Taken my arms
I cannot die Taken my legs
Trapped in myself Taken my soul
Body my holding Left me with life
cell in hell
when each step
can mean your why the Channel
last one on two Seven chopper
legs chills me to my
It was a war feet?
within yourself
 Fed through the
tube that sticks in
me
Deep down inside Just like a
I feel the scream wartime novelty
This terrible Tied to machines
silence stops me that make me be
Cut this life off
from me
 And I can still see
Frankie, drinkin'
tinnies in the Grand
Hotel

And Frankie On a thirty-six hour

rec. leave in Vung Tau
kicked a mine the
day that mankind And I can still hear
Frankie, lying
kicked the moon screaming in the jungle
'Til the morphine came
and killed the bloody
row