Vultures - Chinua Achebe Flashcards
To memorise important parts of the poem
What is the form and structure of this poem?
It has no stanzas, 4 distinct sectionns
It has 51 lines only six sentences
It is a free verse poem
What is the tone of this poem?
It is bleak, lowspirted and a diguisted tone.
What is the mood of this poem?
It has a gloomy and leak mood.
What does the mood of this poem suggest?
That the root of human nature is corrupt.W
What does the last line of the poem reveal?
The speakers cynicism.
What themes are portrayed in this poem?
Good in evil
Animal instinct
Human choic3
Despair and cruelty
What is the message of this poem?
For the reader to considernthat humans are capable of great evil and to show the reader how love and tenderness is overshadowed by evil
Why does the speaker make use of fear promoting and vulgure words?
To emphasise the imagery in the readers mind, to portray how evil the actions being performed are and to form stark contrasts between evil and love.
What are the main contrasts in this poem?
The contrast between the vultures behaviour and the comandants behaviour.
The contrast between the vultures savegery and their love.
The contrast between the comandants evil and his love.
What is something that the speaker asks the reader to question?
If we should aknowledge or disregard the evil in a good person or the good in an evil person.
Why are the actions o haneous when they Comandant does it yet not when the vultures do?
Vultures act on instinct and the Comandant is acting out of choice.
