POETRY help?!?

[loveaustralia00]

Can someone please help me with these two poems. One poem i have to argue/persuade a panel of English teachers that this poem shoudle be included in the poetry unit. And the other i have to challenge/ argue agianst the cultural assuptions, ideologies underpinning the poem. Both poems are below.
The Surfer

He thrust his joy against the weight of the sea,
climbed through, slid under those long banks of foam –
(hawthorn hedges in spring, thorns in the face stinging).
how his brown strength drove through the hollow and coil
of green-through weirs of water!
Muscle of arm thrust down long muscle of water.
And swimming so, went out of sight
where mortal, masterful, frail, the gulls went wheeling
in air, as he in water, with delight.

Turn home, the sun goes down; swimmer, turn home.
Last leaf of gold vanishes from the sea-curve.
Take the big roller’s shoulder, speed and swerve.
Come to the long beach home like a gull diving.

For on the sand the grey-wolf sea lies snarling;
cold twilight wind splits the waves’ hair and shows
the bones they worry in their wolf-teeth. O, the wind blows,
and sea crouches on sand, fawning and mouthing;
drops there and snatches again, drops and again snatches
its broken toys, its whitened pebbles and shells.
- Judith Wright
War by Mary Gilmore.
Out in the dust he lies;
Flies in his mouth,
Ants in his eyes ...

I stood at the door
Where he went out;
Full-grown man,
Ruddy and stout;

I heard the march
Of the trampling feet,
Slow and steady
Come down the street;

The beat of the drum
Was clods on the heart,
For all that the regiment
Looked so smart!

I heard the crackle
Of hasty cheers
Run like the breaking
Of unshed tears,

And just for a moment,
As he went by,
I had sight of his face,
And the flash of his eye.

He died a hero's death,
They said,
When they came to tell me
My boy was dead;

But out in the street
A dead dog lies;
Flies in his mouth,
Ants in his eyes. [26]

I will be arguing in favor for this one, and the poem above will be argued agianst.
lol .......

[Steph S]

first one sounds like sex