Chinua Achebe vs. Margret Atwood Essay

Compare the ways that vultures are portrayed and usaged in the numberss by Margaret Atwood and Chinua Achebe. By Jessica Tilbrook. Chinua Achebe and Margret Atwood grew up in two very incompatible environments. They were born al nearly a decade ap imposture, yet they both managed to concept two very meaningful poesys closely vultures. Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930. In 1967 the region of Biafra broke away from Nigeria. Achebe became a devoted adherent of Biafra independence and served as ambassador for the hoi polloi of the nation. But to get this read/write head at that place was a 3 year war of independence ravage. Chinua Achebe witnesses any(prenominal) horrific scenes.He dictum babies, children and adults starving to there death. He saw his own people from Biafra killing others from Nigeria. He saw how loving people soak up the capacity to be evil and vice versa according to Achebes version on the poetry vultures. Chinua Achebe believed that any good work of cr aft should have a purpose. Achebes vultures defiantly had a purpose, as it assigns how tear down evil, imbruted creatures like vultures have the capacity to love. Throughout Achebes poem there is a disallow feel. From the very start of the poem it is beastly and quite graphic in the description of the vultures.In the poem it on occasion refers to love as one of the vultures inclines affectionately. This suggests that point vile creatures kitty have the capacity to love. Chinua Achebe uses many techniques throughout his poem vultures. The structure of the poem has no rhyming scheme or lines of the same lengths. The lines are written short, in all likelihood on purpose as you can then appreciate the horror, by reading it slower, creating tension. Achebes poem isnt really in Stanzas it is more split into four sections this is probably done to accompaniment the feed in of evil and ideas running through the poem.There is also a inadequacy of punctuation throughout the poem, this could have been done on purpose to keep the poem flowing, like the sections. Chinua Achebe choose to right in past puree for the description of the vultures, as its easier to understand what vultures are like whereas the Belsen air force officer is described in the present tense. This might of been done to remind us that evil is all around us now, and everyone has the capacity to be evil. The leger strange on its own, at the beginning of the insurgent section makes us pause, and find about whats constituteually going to be strange, which makes you intend about the whole section.Throughout Achebes poem there is a lot of imagery a good example of this is Belsen Commandant a mass murderer and his children calling him Daddy, not find. This is probably done so you can visualise how the children have no idea of what there father has actually done, and they are treating him like normal. This is quite emotional to read, as you can imagine this really happening. Another example of Achebes imagery is the metaphors he uses to describe death and horror. In the first section it says vulture perching senior high school on broken bones of a dead tree.This makes the line more intense, and builds up the tension from the very beginning. There is some alliteration in the poem, but there are not many references to honorable. I think Achebe wants to concentrate on more visual images rather than dense effects to suggest his ideas. I liked Achebes version of the poem vultures. It had a very meaningful purpose, which is what Achebe wanted to achieve. He wanted to use vultures as a fomite to get people to understand that yet the most loving of people have the capacity to be evil. I think he used vultures as a very sure-fire vehicle at getting his point crossways.I also think that this poem is ambiguous on one hand, you could say that even the cruellest of creatures show even the tiniest amount of love, but on the other hand, that even the most loving creatures have potential to be even the slightest bit evil. The second poem called vultures was written my Margret Atwood. She was born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1939. She was a little girl of a forest entomologist, and spent part of her early years in the bush of North Quebec. Atwood is the joint honorary president of the rare darn club of birdlife international. The main message of this poem is how life comes of death.So fundamentally the cycle of life, and even from the most horrific things in life, can take away something extraordinary out of it. Throughout Atwoods poems there are references to death, much(prenominal) as hung and bones. This does not give a good vibe to the poem. Atwood uses several metaphors throughout. Then theyre hyenas, raucous around the kill, fuss their minacious umbrellas. This is two metaphors in one sentence. She describes the vultures as hyenas which is not only a good comparison but good use of imagery. Also Atwood says the vultures were flapping their black umb rellas this makes them out to seem huge evil animals.The structure of Atwoods poem is done very well, as she occasionally puts comical quarrel on a separate line to make you think about the poem in more depth. The poem is sort of in stanzas but there isnt maybe, which helps the poem keep flowing. All of the lines in the poem are roughly the same length, apart from the occasional odd word. I think it makes the poem easier to read, and get the rhyme flowing at the right pace. Margret Atwood uses a variety of meaningful and powerful words. For example whipping violate gluttonous all these words have a negative impact on vultures.As they are explaining why and how they are vile creates. But some people might say that the way vultures act is completely natural. This is because it is natural for them to eat, which means killing other animals, to feed themselves and there family. Which shows this poem is also quite ambiguous. There arent many references to sound throughout Atwoods versi on of Vultures. But she does say vultures snigger at funerals. And sniggering refers to sound. This also implies vultures are vile creature, as it is inappropriate to horribly express joy at a funeral.I think that Margret Atwood successfully used vultures as a good vehicle to show how life comes out of death, even in the most horrible circumstances. I thought both Chinua Achebe and Margret Atwoods poems both had very different meanings, but both shows contrasts between homo and vultures. In my opinion Chinua Achebes version of vultures was the best used vehicle to get his point across. As he point his point across very well, and he achieved his purpose that any good work of art should have a purpose. So I think Chinua Achebes poem just slightly had an edge over Margret Atwoods because of Achebes aims for his poem.