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

Analysing Blessing and An Old Woman song from other CulturesQuestion 2Culture means the beliefs, traditions, and customs of people within asociety. Fundamental aspects of a culture are faith, values, andhistory. People that share a culture also share its beliefs and waysof life, which are different to others. Poetry is an effective way ofdescribing and exploring a culture, and events within it, becausecertain aspects can be expressed with vivid descriptions, and imagerythat would be unsuitable in other types of text. both(prenominal) cultures havealso used poetry as a form of storytelling, describing events thathappened to their ancestors, or even themselves. Poems can be conciseand leave some expound to the imagination of the reader, thereforethey are easier to remember, and remain in the readers mind forlonger, which makes them more memorable.---------------------------------------------------------------------The two poems that I have chosen are Blessing by Imtiaz Dharker andAn Old Woman create verbally 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 beggar womanis trying desperately to get a fifty paise coin, which is equivalentto less than 1 pence, off a tourist. This amount of money isfrequently, and carelessly dropped on the floor without a secondglance, in countries such as our own, yet in India an elderly woman require this to survive. In Blessing water is highly valued, and everydrop is precious because their community is so short of such asubstance. However, people in our, more developed, comm... ...tent and quick-witted 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 worn andtired as a result of it. I think her discontentment is conveyed inline 20-21 bullet holes s he has for eyes. I believe this, becauseshe has to hide her true feelings from the outside to restrain 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 can deoxidize on trying to earn a living to stay alive, in doing thisthough, all her feelings are trapped inside and she is unable toovercome them. In doing this, it appears that she has no feelings andis completely isolated from the rest of the community. This isillustrated in line 29-30 round the shatter-proof crone who standsalone.