The document compares how two poets, Armitage and Owen, use imagery to present themes of conflict. Armitage uses personification to depict human conflict with physical things, portraying heat as a driving force. Owen also conveys conflict through metaphors, describing fire as bullying to represent domination between people. Both poets vividly illustrate conflict through imaginative language.

1. Both poets use vivid imagery to present a theme of conflict in different ways. Whilst Armitage
uses personification to portray the conflict between humans and physical things, Owen uses
metaphors to cunjure feelings and ideas to the reader. In ‘Out of the blue’, Armitage talks about
the ‘driving’ heat, this word evokes the image of a wildly fast fire rampaging toward the
narrator. Owen also describes the fire as ‘bullying’ which reminds us of the conflict between
two people where one person dominates over the other.
Owen on the other hand,