How is Imagery portrayed in two poems (Night of the Scorpion and Blessing) you have studied?

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How is Imagery portrayed in two poems (Night of the Scorpion and Blessing) you have studied?

'Night of the Scorpion' is a poem about a cultural situation which differs from ours. This is a narrative poem from the son's point of view, whose mother was stung by a Scorpio. The poem is loaded with techniques and devices which project one of the best imageries in the Cluster 1 of the Different Cultures poems, some analysis of which will be developed upon in this essay.

Along the same lines is the poem 'Blessing' which is also a different culture poem. It is about water in a hot country and is not particularly the best poem that projects a clear image to me, but it's certainly one of the most interesting one in Cluster 1.

Firstly, the title of a poem plays a very significant role as the first thing our eyes lock with when reading a poem is the title. The title 'Night of the Scorpion' could symbolise the 'night' on which something happened relating a Scorpio or its could suggest that something so small and low in status as a Scorpio became such a huge issue that