Death, Loneliness and Society. A comparison of poems by Stevie Smith and Jenny Joseph

Task: Identify, analyze and discuss the treatment of two of the following themes (one from List A and one from List B) in poetry written in English in the British Isles since 1945. You should quote from two poems on each theme (a total of four different poems).
List A: Love, Loss, Death, Friendship, Loneliness/ Alienation
List B: Society, Politics, Nature/ Environment, Art, Language

Contents:
1. A comparison of the themes of ‘Death’ and ‘Loneliness’ in “Not Waving but Drowning” by Stevie Smith, and in “Warning” by Jenny Joseph

2. A comparison of the theme of ‘Society’ in “Poor Soul, Poor Girl!: A Debutante” by Stevie Smith, and in “This be the Verse” by Philip Larkin