War is brutal; it brings death, sadness, and destruction. In Henry Reed’s poem “Naming of Parts” and John A McCrae’s poem “In Flanders Fields”. The authors convey a soldier’s reaction of war. Although the stories contain obvious difference, it is the similarities that are significant. Both poems are differ in setting and tone. In “Naming of Parts”, the setting is in a classroom where a military instructor is giving a lecture on “parts” of a rifle and showing the new recruits the firing process, using the bolt handle to “slide it rapidly backwards and forwards”. In contrast, “In Flanders Fields” is set in a graveyard where “the poppies blow between the crosses, row on row”. Another difference is the tone. While the tone in “Naming of Parts”
