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“The Captain of the 1964 Top of the Form Team” is written in dramatic monologue. The narrator describes to the audience a time when he was ‘top of the form team’. The title introduces the ideas behind the poem; ‘Top of the form team’ was a game show in the 6o’s, which showed competing teams of school children, who would answer general knowledge questions. There was a strong emphasis on individual strengths. The date 1964 is …

…ness see straight through this mock up of a life. Both the poems look at social change and living out a lie which becomes apparent when older in the first poem but when younger in the second poem. They both use allusions to show how things are unquestioned, and both have a very similar tone and mood towards the end of the poem. I think I prefer the second poem, as it is more inspiring.