Comparing Hurricane Hits England and Blessing :: English Literature

Comparing Hurricane Hits England and BlessingThe narrator in Hurricane Hits England is Grace Nichols who was bornin the Carrribean and the narrator in Blessing is perhaps a person ina country suffering drought, probably in Central Africa. I have intercourse thisby the way that she describes the conditions silver crashes to theground and the sudden rush of fortune this suggests that water isgiven value (silver)And she or her friends or family must know and may have experiencedthese conditions earlier in her life.Hurricane Hits England has seven stanzas of variously numbered lines.They are very short therefore snappy and enlarge impact to the piece. Itkeeps you drawn to the poetry as it does not have long lines whichsomemultiplication have less core than these short lines in the poetry.Blessing has four stanzas of medium length lines. The poem is laid outso that it carries on flowing like water. often of devices attract youto the poem including sibilance, alteration, personifica tion,metaphors and onomatopoeia. These can appeal to the readers fivesenses and add impact to keep the reader interested in the piece.There are lots of rhetorical questions in Hurricane Hits England, asif the narrator is asking or appeal to Huracan, Oya, Hattie andShango (Gods of wind, thunder. Hattie A famous Caribbean hurricane.The language in both poems is very different Blessing uses lots ofdevices and techniques to add imagery to the poem. Such asonomatopoeia The small spill Imagine the drip of it Silvercrashes to the ground.Blessing also uses similes The skin cracks like a podpersonification as the blessing sings and a few times alliterationflow has found sometimes, the sudden rush polished toperfection.A metaphor is used in the middle of the poem silver crashes to theground this is a good line as it also includes onomatopoeia.There is also sibilance small splash and some ambiguous lines.There are a few cases of enjambement and lots of cases of imagery inboth poems.However, Hurricane Hits England uses a different approach, usingcarefully crafted pairs of adjectives to create lots of imagery andappeal to the readers senses. ululation ship gathering rage Thereis lots of strong adjectives reaping, ancestral, crusted, cravingThere is also a simile falling heavy as whalesLots of rhetorical questions are asked Tell me why you visit anEnglish coast? Even as you short circuit us into further darkness?What is the meaning of reaping havoc in new places? These make youwonder who the narrator is talking to. She talks to Gods in the poem