Night of the scorpion and Blessing both display images of the place. Each culture is similar in some ways. Scorpion is set a rural place and Blessing is presented in an urban place.

The language in blessing is similar to the language of ‘Scorpion’. For example they both use religious language. Such as ‘God’ and ‘Blessing. The writer uses the word blessing to show that the water was blessed from god. At first ‘Imtiaz Dharker’ starts of explaining how there is no water and then there is a sudden rush of water. The writer starts off with a simile ‘Skin cracks like a pod’. This has a huge affect on the reader as they will be able to imagine what the peoples skins were like. By using the word blessing it makes the water seem precious to the people in the slums.

In blessing there are a number of stanzas. In stanza one people are desperate for water, in stanza two the poet makes the reader imagine how it feels, in stanza three it tells us about the pressure to collect as much water as possible and in stanza four it tells us about the pressure of having enough water to drink.

In scorpion the structure is different in comparison to blessing. The poem is written in a free verse with varying length and no rhyme. The first part of the poem is long and full of activity and the second part is short as it is three lines long.

The structure of scorpion links with the themes as it starts off with a lot of lines and a lot of activity and as the poem starts to slow down there are fewer lines used.