Compare how visual images are used in Blessing and one other poem

Compare how visual images are used in Blessing and one other poem

(Vultures) to highlight political issues.

The poet of Blessing Imtiaz Dharker and the poet of Vultures Chinua

Achebe both use visual images to highlight the political issues in

both poems. However both poems are very different from each other and

contrast from of the poets’ views. The poem Blessing is about a water

pipe bursting and how that is a blessing, as in the country they live

in water is very limited and it doesn’t rain much in the country. The

poem Vultures is about the evil of war and how evil always has good

and good always has evil. The contrast in the two poems is Blessing is

about Poverty and lack of water, whereas Vultures is about war and

ethnic dying.

In the poem Blessing the poet discusses the theme of third world

poverty and the lack of water through using different language

feature. For example line one “The skin cracks like a pod.” Using like

in the sentence it shows that the poet is comparing dry skin to a pod,

a pod dries out till it crack. There is also onomatopoeia used in

this poem, “sliver crashes to the ground” crash is normally a negative

onomatopoeia as the first thing that may come to our head may be car

crash; however it is used as a positive as it is used with silver.

Silver is a value metal and is precious, this shows how precious the

water was to them. In the poem Vultures the poet discusses the theme

of war and ethnic dying by using different language features. For

example in Vultures the poet has used repetition of death and negative

vocabulary a number of different times. “perching high on broken bone

of a dead tree” in the phrase there are tow negative words. These

negative words show that the Vul...

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...g and Vultures to show the different political issues. In

the poem Blessing visual images are portrayed about third world

poverty, and in the poem Vultures it more about war a more political

issue. Even though poverty is a political issue it could be easily

stopped but would take a long time. War alternatively would take a

long time and could also easily be. In contrast poverty could only be

created by other countries it could also be created by the country

it’s self. For example in the poem Vultures the commandment could stop

imposing rules for others to follow, this would bring a stop to evil.

However gathering the money to bring poverty to end would take a

number of months. The in poem Blessing I thought the country may have

been living in poverty for a number of years and didn’t have water for

a number weeks. This could have lead to a number of deaths.