Analysing Blessing and An Old Woman` Essay -- Poetry Imtiaz Dharker Ar

Analysing Blessing and An Old WomanPoetry from new(prenominal) CulturesQuestion 2Culture means the beliefs, traditions, and customs of people inside asociety. Fundamental aspects of a culture be faith, values, andhistory. People that parting a culture also share its beliefs and waysof life, which are several(predicate) to others. Poetry is an effective way ofdescribing and exploring a culture, and events within it, becausecertain aspects grass be expressed with vivid descriptions, and imagerythat would be unsuitable in other types of text. Some cultures havealso used poetry as a form of storytelling, describing events thathappened to their ancestors, or even themselves. Poems can be crispand leave some details to the imagination of the reader, thereforethey are easier to remember, and endure in the readers mind forlonger, which makes them to a greater extent memorable.---------------------------------------------------------------------The two poems that I have elect are Bless ing by Imtiaz Dharker andAn Old Woman written by Arun Kolatkar. I selected these poemsbecause they are both set in poor, third-world countries, and thepeople within their communities value so strongly items that are takefor granted in developed countries. In An Old Woman, a resist womanis trying desperately to do a fifty paise coin, which is equivalentto less than 1 pence, off a tourist. This step of money isfrequently, and carelessly dropped on the floor without a secondglance, in countries such as our own, yet in India an elderly woman necessarily this to survive. In Blessing water is highly valued, and everydrop is precious because their confederation is so short of such asubstance. However, people in our, more developed, comm... ...tent and happy with the life that theylive.However, in An Old Woman this impression is not given. The beggardoes not appear to be content with her way of life and is half-hearted andtired as a result of it. I think her discontentment is conveye d inline 20-21 bullet holes she has for look. I believe this, becauseshe has to bury her true feelings from the outside to prevent anyoneknowing what she really feels, and therefor her eyes seem to justglaze over and hold no feelings. I think she does this so that she canconcentrate on trying to pass water a living to stay alive, in doing thisthough, all her feelings are detain inside and she is unable toovercome them. In doing this, it appears that she has no feelings andis completely obscure from the rest of the community. This isillustrated in line 29-30 round the shatter-proof crone who standsalone.