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

Comp be how opthalmic images are use in Blessing and wiz other verse form(Vultures) to highlight political issues.The poet of Blessing Imtiaz Dharker and the poet of Vultures ChinuaAchebe both use visual images to highlight the political issues inboth poems. However both poems are very different from each other andcontrast from of the poets views. The poem Blessing is about a waterpipe bursting and how that is a blessing, as in the coarse they livein water is very limited and it doesnt rain much in the land. Thepoem Vultures is about the evil of war and how evil endlessly has goodand good always has evil. The contrast in the two poems is Blessing isabout Poverty and lack of water, whereas Vultures is about war andethnic dying. In the poem Blessing the poet discusses the theme of third world destitution and the lack of water through using different languagefeature. For example line one The hide cracks like a pod. Using likein the sentence it shows that the poet is comparing dry skin to a pod,a pod dries out till it crack. in that respect is also onomatopoeia used inthis poem, sliver crashes to the ground crash is normally a negativeonomatopoeia as the first thing that may come to our intellect may be carcrash however it is used as a positive as it is used with silver.Silver is a value surface and is precious, this shows how precious thewater was to them. In the poem Vultures the poet discusses the themeof war and ethnic dying by using different language features. Forexample in Vultures the poet has used repetition of death and negativevocabulary a number of different times. perching high on broken boneof a dead tree in the phrase there are tow negative words. Thesenegative words show that the Vul... ...g and Vultures to show the different political issues. Inthe poem Blessing visual images are portrayed about third world impoverishment, and in the poem Vultures it more about war a more politicalissue. Even though poverty is a political issue it could be easilystopped but would take a long time. War alternatively would take along time and could also easily be. In contrast poverty could only becreated by other countries it could also be created by the countryits self. For example in the poem Vultures the commandment could stopimposing rules for others to follow, this would bring a stop to evil.However gathering the money to bring poverty to end would take anumber of months. The in poem Blessing I thought the country may havebeen living in poverty for a number of years and didnt have water fora number weeks. This could have lead to a number of deaths.