The poem Vultures, set in 1971 and written by Chinua Achebe, is a poem that talks about human nature and nature, the poem talks about vultures and humans comparing them. The poem is about the father, commandant of the Belsen concentration camp, returning home to his beloved children. The poem Catrin by Gillian Clarke is about the relationship between mother Gillian and her daughter Catri and is set during Catrin's birth, so the poem would be set around 1937 as that was the time Catrin was born. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an Original Essay The context of the setting in the poem Vultures begins as cloudy, unhappy, and gloomy. This is because the poem uses the line "In the gray and drizzle of a despondent dawn untroubled by omens." which shows alliteration and highlights the fact that the morning is inhospitable and isolated. Another part of the poem is the commandant and his actions, which is shown when the author says “…So the commandant of Belsen camp goes home for the day.” This quote from the poem shows that the commandant of the Belsen camp, who is also the father of his children, does evil deeds because working in a concentration camp is justified since his children are waiting at home for their father to return. Overall this shows acts of both human nature and nature because the father sees his acts as normal and loving even with all the bad deeds the father has done, this shows that a truly evil man can still show and feel love and affection for his family who ultimately shows us that love can perpetrate evil. The poem Catrin begins in a hospital ward or more accurately in a labor room as the first five stanzas talk about the setting and how the mother Gillian can remember her and her daughter Catrin's monumental experience: "May I remember you, child, while I was in a warm, white room at the window watching the people taking turns at the traffic lights." Overall the poem about Catrin is quite a personal poem because the structure of the poem is structured as a free verse that talks about the author's relationship with his son, Catrina. The author also uses the first person in this poem, which shows that the poem is quite personal. it is also there to show parental conflict and complex relationship conflict. The poem Vultures has four paragraphs in total, the first paragraph begins with a graphic description of the vultures and the environment in which they are found. The second paragraph talks about the vultures' love for each other. The third paragraph is about the commander of Belsen and the fourth paragraph is about love and evil. The first paragraph which talks about the graphic description of vultures uses the letter 'd' to express a sad and negative feeling which helps create the environment they are in, for example drizzle, dawn and discouraged which are words that start with the letter 'd'. This is because vultures are rather cruel animals that stalk their prey and eat the dead. The term "discouraged" also defines a negative vision because it means dejected due to loss of hope or courage. As does the word "forerunners" which means things that warn of what is to come. The author talks about how cruel vultures are and how they behave. For example, in the eighth stanza of the first verse, the author says "... pairs his smooth, flattened head with a pebble on a stem rooted in a pile of coarse feathers." The word "rooted stem" is a juxtaposition that speaks of the bird's neck and the "coarse feather dump" is the body.