Blessing and Vultures Essay -- English Literature

Blessing and VulturesIn the poems Blessing and Vultures, the poets both use vividdescriptive language to create pictures and moods.In Blessing, the poet begins the warrant stanza with the wordimagine. This word involves the reader and tells them to create amental picture of the scene. He uses lots of onomatopoeia in thisstanza. Words like drip and quench create an image of a smallamount of water falling into a tin mug. This also creates a mood ofthirst and drought. The stanza is finished with the cable television service the voiceof a kindly god. This personifies the water and makes it seemheavenly. The third stanza creates a sense of rushing, in the sameway that water would rush out of the give squall. This mood is createdby using fast sounding words, such as rush, bursts and crashes. These words are also onomatopoeic because they sound like the pipebursting, the water rushing and crashing to the ground. It uses theword silver metaphorically to describe the look of the water an dalso how precious it is. Another metaphor is a roar of tongues. Th...