Comparing and contrasting between "Not Waving but Drowning and Song".

In this assignment I am going to talk about two poems, the first one is "Not waving but Drowning" and the second one is "Song". After that, I am going to compare and contrast between these two poems.
"Not waving but Drowning" by Stevie Smith was written in 1957. I found this poem in a selection Faber, 1983. I like this poem because it tells us a serious thing in our life and which the speaker was suffering from that is the death. Actually, when I have read this poem, I felt sorry to the dead man because the victim was obviously desperate to gain his friends' understanding, but fails onc…