Comparing Hurricane Hits England and Blessing :: English Literature

Comparing Hurricane Hits England and bring upThe bank clerk in Hurricane Hits England is Grace Nichols who was bornin the Carrribean and the narrator in B slighting is perhaps a person ina country ache drought, probably in Central Africa. I know thisby the way that she describes the conditions silver crashes to theground and the sudden rush of fortune this suggests that water iscondition value (silver)And she or her friends or family must know and may cook experiencedthese conditions earlier in her life.Hurricane Hits England has seven stanzas of variously numbered lines.They are in truth short therefore snappy and add impact to the piece. Itkeeps you drawn to the metrical composition as it does not have long lines whichsometimes have less meaning than these short lines in the poem.Blessing has four stanzas of medium continuance lines. The poem is laid outso that it carries on riseing alike water. Lots of devices attract youto the poem including sibilance, alteration, embo diment,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 pleading 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 mental imagery to the poem. Such asonomatopoeia The small disperse Imagine the drip of it fluidcrashes 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 employ in the middle of the poem silver crashes to theground this is a groovy line as it also includes onomatopoeia.There is also sibilance small splash and some ambiguous lines.There are a few cases of enjambment and lots of cases of imagery in both poems.However, Hurricane Hits England uses a different approach, utilisecarefully crafted pairs of adjectives to create lots of imagery andappeal to the readers senses. howling ship gathering rage Thereis lots of sinewy adjectives reaping, ancestral, crusted, cravingThere is also a simile falling grievous as whalesLots of rhetorical questions are asked Tell me why you catch anEnglish coast? Even as you short circuit us into further darkness?What is the meaning of reaping havoc in new places? These make water youwonder who the narrator is talking to. She talks to Gods in the poem