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'Blessing' and 'Vultures'
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Blessing and Vultures Essay In the poems 'Blessing' and 'Vultures', the poets both use vivid descriptive language to create pictures and moods. In 'Blessing', the poet begins the second stanza with the word 'imagine'. This word involves the reader and tells them to create a mental picture of the scene. He uses lots of onomatopoeia in this stanza. Words like 'drip' and 'splash' create an image of a small amount of water falling into a tin mug. This also creates a mood of thirst and drought. The stanza is finished with the line "the voice of a kindly god." This personifies the water and makes it seem heavenly. The third stanza creates a sense of rushing, in the same way that water would rush out of the burst pipe. This mood is created by using fast sounding words, such as 'rush', 'bursts' and 'crashes'. These words are also onomatopoeic because they sound...
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