Comparing Hurricane Hits England and Blessing :: English Literature

canvass Hurricane Hits England and BlessingThe cashier 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 do thisby the way that she describes the conditions silver crashes to the soil and the sudden rush of component part this suggests that water isgiven value (silver)And she or her friends or family must realize and may have experiencedthese conditions earlier in her life.Hurricane Hits England has seven stanzas of multifariously numbered lines.They are very unforesightful therefore snappy and add strike to the piece. Itkeeps you drawn to the poem as it does not have long lines whichsome measure have less meaning than these short lines in the poem.Blessing has foursome stanzas of medium length lines. The poem is laid outso that it carries on flowing like water. Lots of devices attract youto the poem including sibilance, alteration, personificat ion,metaphors and onomatopoeia. These can evoke to the proofreaders fivesenses and add impact to keep the reader interested in the piece. at that place are divide 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 far-famed 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 splash speak out the drip of it Silvercrashes to the ground.Blessing to a fault uses illustrations 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 enjambment and lots of ca ses of imagery inboth poems.However, Hurricane Hits England uses a different approach, usingcarefully crafted pairs of adjectives to create lots of imagery and spell to the readers senses. howling 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 specialize 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