Comparing Hurrican Hits England and Not my Business Essay -- Grace Nic

Comparing Hurrican Hits England and not my affairThe devil verse forms I am to compare are lard Nichols Hurricane HitsEngland a poem that shows that the whole world is single world and how astorm reminds a Caribbean woman of home. The author obviously missesher home farming and feels it in the storm which she wrote ab fall out, theviolence of the storm is harsh and causes some damage. The aidpoem, with which I will be comparing Hurricane... is Niyi OsundaresNot my Business. This poem describes the violent and horrific naturein which the Nigerian politics treated those people who disagreedwith the state. It describes the suffering and suffering they forced uponthese people and how the pain and suffering is then brought to thenarrator.This poem is about shared responsibilities and the way that totalitarianismgrows if no one opposes it. It is composed, simply, of three storiesabout victims of the oppressors, followed by the experience of the speaker system in the poem, in whic h he has not done anything, but the featurethat he knows makes him a target. The poet is Nigerian but thesituation in the poem could be from many countries, there are languageused standardized yam, and the names of the people which tell you this. Thepoem echoes, in its quaternary parts, a statement by Pastor MartinNiemller, who opposed the Nazis. Speaking ulterior to many audiences hewould conclude with these words, more or lessFirst, they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out becauseI was not a socialist. thence they came for the trade unionists, and Idid not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they camefor the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Thenthey came for me, and there was no one left to speak... ...oem.The last lines of this poem emphasise the confusion surrounding whereforethey are there. The line,The jeep was waiting on my bewildered lawn is personification whichsuggests that no-one, not even his lawn, knows why its h appening. Andthen a repetition of the word Waiting makes it seem as though themen have to do a lot of waiting and that time maybe seems to go soslowly because of these things that are happening. Both of these poems are excellent at enforcing their sustain point intheir own ways, Hurricane through tactile emotional words andbeautiful yet violent images of the storm, and Not My Business.through blatant prune for human life depicted through the eyes ofa track down man, who is hunted because he knows what is going on. All inall two excellent and well thought out poems, each with their own abruptly presented message.