To Analyse and Compare How Two Poems Present Their Ideas ...

‘Not my business’ by Niyi Osundare is a poem that is linked to warfare and slavery.

The composition uses modern day language and more poetic equipment, which makes it very simple to follow and more interesting to read. ‘Vultures’ by Chinua Achebe is definitely linked to a more sinister although romantic topic. This composition is less easy to understand just like ‘Not my personal business’ since the language utilized is more formal and the author uses more descriptive terms and less graceful devices. So these poetry are quite several but have a few similarities.

Certainly not my business’ relates to war and captivity because it discusses people getting taken away and beaten up. This composition has a invisible message which can be ‘what goes around comes back around’ also known as Karma. This is because the key character inside the poem doesn’t help different characters inside the poem once bad points happen to these people, so towards the end something bad happens to him. ‘Vultures’ is around two vultures that are in love. This kind of poem’s hidden message is that even ugly creatures will find love and you shouldn’t assess a book simply by its cover. The author also compares the vultures to humans.

Not my business’ uses a selection of poetic devices such as similes, personification, metaphors, alliteration and repetition. By using a more equipment and they are more understandable than ‘Vultures’. A simile used in ‘Not my personal business’ is ‘Beat him soft like clay’. This simile was used to describe just how Akanni was beat up and it demonstrates that the people that beat him up were very strong because they describe it to be ‘soft like clay’. An unnecessary repetition used is usually ‘dragged Danladi’.

The use of this alliteration emphasises the way they dragged him and it suggest that they drawn Danladi quite roughly. A personification employed ‘the vehicle was ready on my confused lawn’. This personification provides the sense that the lawn was scared since the jeep was waiting that gives readers the sense the character was scared was scared when the jeep was waiting for him on the grass.

From this you can see that ‘Not my business’ has uses devices towards a more understandable and clear method. ‘Vultures’ provides less poetic devices than ‘Not my own business’, but it really uses a lots of descriptive dialect. An unnecessary repetition used can be ‘drizzle of just one despondent’. This kind of alliteration provides an impressive sinister field for your readers.

A metaphor used is usually ‘telescopic eyes’. This metaphor tells your readers that the vultures have incredibly good eyesight as they are able to see from far away like a telescope. ‘Vultures’ doesn’t use any other poetic equipment unlike ‘Not my business’ which has a number of poetic devices. The language employed in ‘Not my business’ is more modern than ‘Vultures’ making it easier to understand. ‘Not my personal business’ even offers less detailed language than ‘Vultures’. The poem uses figurative dialect at ‘A knock on the door halted my famished hand’. The utilization of ‘hungry hand’ tells visitor that he was very eager to eat as his hand was holding the food.

The language in this composition also shows that the composition is by a different lifestyle, most likely an African tradition, with the use of the word ‘yam’. ‘Vultures’ uses even more descriptive language than ‘Not my business’. The detailed language provides an impressive sinister and mysterious landscape image to readers. The words ‘greyness’, ‘drizzle’ and ‘despondent’ create a incredibly mysterious atmosphere but this really is quite just like ‘Not my personal business since that use ‘lengthy’ absence which quite mystical. The readers have a grim photo when ‘Vultures’ say ‘Picked the sight of a swollen corpse’. This is certainly a grim image since the readers could possibly get an image of your lifeless body being enjoyed.

It is also displayed in ‘Hollowed remnant’ because this shows that generally there wasn’t much left from the body following being enjoyed by the vultures. ‘Vultures’ as well shows dialect of relationship and this is shown upon ‘nestled near his mate’. This is different from ‘Not my own business’ since ‘Not my personal business’ doesn’t have any romance or perhaps good relationships. The repeating of ‘What business of mine can it be, So long they will don’t take those yam, From my savouring mouth’ makes ‘Not my own business include a tempo.

Unlike ‘Not my business’, ‘Vultures’ doesn’t have tempo but the not enough rhythm makes you think deeper into the content material of the poem. None in the poems possess rhyme in them. And so the poems include a few variations and commonalities compared to each other in different features.

I recommended to read ‘not my business’ because I understood that more and I found it more interesting with the larger variety of poetic devices that had been used.