Compare and contrast the ways in which two poems from other cultures and traditions convey their message. Consider how the writers achieve their intention.

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Compare and contrast the ways in which two poems from other cultures and traditions convey their message. Consider how the writers achieve their intention.

 Someone’s culture is heir way of life and how they do things. Culture is like a religion where if you’re in a family that’s very religious then you have to go along with the things they do: - e.g. dress in certain clothing and pray when you’re told to. The themes are the way that someone fits into a certain living state. The writer conveys the message that they’re trying to get across in different ways. They use powerful language which paints a picture in your head of what’s going on in the poem. The writer’s tone is judged by if they’re writing a positive or negative poem. If it’s positive then they’ll come across all relaxed and light hearted whereas if it’s negative they’ll use a much more stern tone and make the reader have a change in emotion and feeling, e.g. sympathy. The writer sets out to get a message across to the reader; this is called the writer’s intention.

The two poems studied were ‘Blessing’ and ‘Scavengers’. In ‘Blessing’ the issue of poverty is addressed in a 3rd world country and how aid is desperately needed. The writer for this poem is Imtiaz Dharker. Part of that is included in ‘Scavengers’ where the scavengers are lower down in society but the children in ‘Blessing’ are lower down than them and are very less fortunate. Also in ‘Scavengers’ the actual poem is about two garbage men being compared to two people in a Mercedes and the lives that they have. The writer for this poem is Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

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In the poem ‘Blessing’ the poet Imtiaz Dharker uses language and imagery to describe what’s going on in the poem. ‘skin cracks like a pod’, their skin is so it cracks as there’s not enough moisture in their skin. The Earth cracks when it gets too dry. ‘There never is enough water’, telling us that they can’t cope without water in desperate need of it and can’t get enough of it. ‘Imagine the drip of it’, they have to imagine the ‘drip’ of water as there isn’t enough there to turn the tap on. ‘tin mug, brass, copper, aluminium, ...

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