“The Bull Calf” by Irving Layton tells a story about a newborn bull calf who is deadly sick; therefore, he has to be put to sleep by its owner. The poem shows a great dramatization of the bull’s death as the author introduces the human’s conscience that keeps haunting a person for the blame of killing an innocent animal. The logic of a person’s action was justified by the fact that the bull calf will bring no profit to the farm. “No money in bull calves”, therefore it must be killed immediately. The poem mentions a great fear that the bull calf has in his eyes as the cold-hearted farmer strikes the animal with “the ponderous mallet” until it is dead. As the author depicts the young bull’s helplessness – “the thing could barely stand” – and at the same time, it has already formed dignity, “he still impresses with his pride”, Layton condemns the farmer’s decision to kill the animal. “Tulips” by Sylvia Plath is an emotional poem of a woman who has just experienced surgery and is now recovering from the thoughts of death swirling around in her head. It has “achingly vivid imagery and unrestrained fervor that was Plath’s trademark” (Kwai). A reader can feel the emotion of fear and uncertainty throughout the whole poem, as the writer enhances the feeling of anxiety with the symbol of tulips that torture the woman. This atmosphere of a hospital room allows her to detach from the outside world and be untouched by anything. She feels as if there were nothing more to her than her feelings. These two poems have many similarities in their context, yet they are entirely different in the sense of feeling and presentation. Both poems reflect the matter of death, but in completely different ways. In “The Bull Calf”, death is perceived by the image of a newborn calf who is cruelly killed by the farmer, whereas in the “Tulips”, a woman thinks about death as something freeing. She is unsure about whether to accept death or to face a painful recovery and return to her previous life. Such opposing perspectives make readers think about how different each person is and how contrasting their opinions towards life can be. Layton shows the person’s life perception as a God who can dispose of any living creature. Contrary to the Plath’s philosophical approach when every person is just a pebble in this world, “I am nobody,” she says, realizing how many people pass through this hospital room, and she faces the anxiety of death. Therefore, even though the poems have a similar theme of death, they have two completely different perspectives of perceiving it, making them almost unrelatable to each other. In terms of structure, “The Bull Calf” by Irving Layton and “Tulips” by Sylvia Plath are very alike. Both of the poems have no rhyme scheme, which makes a more significant impact on the reader by its already hard theme. The tone in Layton Irvin’s poetry is rather violent and unsympathetic, whereas Sylvia Plath writes her poem in a somewhat worried and at the same time indifferent way. Plath decides to ignore the integration of regular rhythmic, metric, or other prosodic rules. The poem is written in free verse, which is also applicable to “The Bull Calf”. The poets’ decision to incorporate free verse into their works is explained by the fact that such form increases the fee