Blessing and Vultures

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Blessing and Vultures

In the poems ‘Blessing’ and ‘Vultures’, the poets both use vivid

descriptive language to create pictures and moods.

In ‘Blessing’, the poet begins the second stanza with the word

‘imagine’. This word involves the reader and tells them to create a

mental picture of the scene. He uses lots of onomatopoeia in this

stanza. Words like ‘drip’ and ‘splash’ create an image of a small

amount of water falling into a tin mug. This also creates a mood of

thirst and drought. The stanza is finished with the line “the voice

of a kindly god.” This personifies the water and makes it seem

heavenly. The third stanza creates a sense of rushing, in the same

way that water would rush out of the burst pipe. This mood is created

by using fast sounding words, such as ‘rush’, ‘bursts’ and ‘crashes’.

These words are also onomatopoeic because they sound like the pipe

bursting, the water rushing and crashing to the ground. It uses the

word ‘silver’ metaphorically to describe the look of the water and

also how precious it is. Another metaphor is “a roar of tongues”.

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