By means of a detailed commentary compare Dawes “Hopeless, Bloody Hopeless” to Audens “The Unknown Citizen”, How does each poem make you think about the world around you?

Both Dawes “Hopeless, Bloody Hopeless” and Audens “The Unknown Citizen” try to make you open your eyes to what the world around you is really becoming. It has been said that the road to hell is easy and these poems are making you open your eyes and think, so that when the time comes to choose between what is right and what is easy you think less superficially and selfishly and more globally and hopefully make the right decision. Although each poem tackles this in different ways.

Dawes “Hopeless, Bloody Hopeless” highlights the artificial life and the frightening landscape that surrounds us if only we took the time to look. While Audens “The Unknown Citizen" points you more to the realisation that the mass of people lead lives of quiet desperation, as just one person in a crowded sea of faces, simply for materialistic purposes, so they can own things such as “A phonograph, a radio, a car and a fridgidaire”.

“Hopeless, Bloody Hopeless”, as I said before,...