Poem v. Photo

Both the poem and the photograph convey a glum and negative tone due to the subject at hand. War is known to not be a positive thing in general. However, the poem and the photograph treat the humans involved in each very differently. The poem refers to soldiers as "cattle"  which is a term widely used to group people into one rather than to acknowledge individuals. The poem also uses the word "shells" to describe where the noise was coming from. Furthermore, the poem does not acknowledge individuality and rather groups people into one category. On the other hand, the photo shows two soldiers. Since there are only two of them we are forced to recognize their faces and their existences thus leading us to acknowledge a sense of individuality.