Comparing two Ancient Lyrical Poetry

This poem is by Tyrtaeus:

Let a man learn how to fight by first daring to perform mighty deeds,
Not where the missiles won't reach, if he is armed with a shield,
But getting in close where fighting is hard to hand, inflicting a wound
With his long spear or his sword, taking the enemy's life,
With his foot planted alongside a foot and his shield pressed against shield,
And his crest up against crest and his helm up against helm
And breast against breast, embroiled in the action--let him fight man to man,
Holding secure in his grasp haft of his sword or his spear!

The second poem is by Mimnermus:

What is life, what is sweet, if it is missing golden Aphrodite?
Death would be better by far than to live with no time for
Amorous assignations and the gift of tenderness and bedrooms,
All of those things that give youth all of its coveted bloom,
Both for men and for women. But when there arrives the vexatiousness
Of old age, even good looks alter to unsightliness
And the heart wears away under the endlessness of its anxieties:
There is no joy anymore than in the light of the sun;
In children there is found hate and in women there is found no respect.
So difficult has old age been made for us all by God!

These two poems are both very interesting. It seems as if the first one is talking about fighting an how it should be done in thee poets eyes, and the second one is talking about the hard comings of old age.

The first poem seems much more understandable, like if I were to read it once I could probably understand what it is saying. But, the second poem uses much more figures of speech to keep it more secure from the readers. At least that is what I understood from this.

They were both written around the same time and in the same area,  yet these two poems are very different. It shows how they were very advanced for their times.