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In "Dulce et Decorum Est," written by Wilfred Owen, and "Not Waving but Drowning," written by Stevie Smith, there are similarities in imagery, in tone, and in how each of their views are reflected in their poems. In "Dulce et Decorum Est," the tone is very sad and pitiful because of the soldiers that are dying a horrible death in war. In "Not Waving but Drowning," there is also a tone of sadness and pity because there is a person who is drowning and trying to ask for help but no one replies because they think he is waving to say hi. The imagery you get in these two poems is also similar; of a person dying a horrible death, whether it was from poison gas or drowning in water.
The tones of both of these poems are very similar. They both sound sad and make the reader feel pity. When Owen writes, "Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light, as under a sea, I saw him drowning. He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning," the tone is very sad (quoted in Literature, p.929).......

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