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Comparison Between “Vultures” and “What Were They Like?”
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Comparison Between "Vultures" and "What Were They Like?" "Vultures" begins by describing a very unpleasant setting. The setting is quite a dull setting: "In the greyness and drizzle of one despondent dawn unstirred by harbingers of sunbreak a vulture perching high on broken bone of a dead tree" "In the greyness", "drizzle" and "dead tree" all describe the dullness of the poem. It then goes on to describe a pair of evil vultures who are nicely nestling together while eating a corpse. Eating the corpse already shows how disgusting the vultures really are. The descriptions of the vultures give the reader a bad impression among the vultures. For example: "bashed-in head, a pebble on a stem rooted in" "a pebble on a stem rooted in" represents the vulture's head stuck onto its neck. The pebble is the head and the stem is the neck. "Yesterday they picked the eyes of a swollen corpse in a water-logged trench and ate the things in its bowel." "picked the eyes...
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