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Wednesday, December 12, 2018

'Commentary- Blessing by Imtiaz Dharker Essay\r'

'Imtiaz Dharker’s poem describes rain down as its blessing to a dry place, as the short direct sentences in the foremost stanza suggests at that place was no promise on that go through with(predicate): â€Å" in that location never is enough water.” The line shows the desperateness of rain as it sets a negative tone to start the poem. However, as the poem progress, there was an increase in hope and energy, seen from the energetic and positive language such as, â€Å" kicking”, â€Å"bursts”, â€Å"crashes” and â€Å"roar”.\r\nThese are utilize to associate with the movement and the liveliness brought by the rain. The poet is trying to compare rain to a god-like blessing as it says from the title, and also from the volume â€Å"congregation” as the word is related to religious. It depict rain as a god-gifted blessing to the land without hope, describing the echo of rain to: â€Å"the voice of a hearty god.”\r\nWe und erstructure see the importance of water to the pile from the land as water is described as precious items such as â€Å"silver”, â€Å" fate” and â€Å"liquid sun”, suggesting it’s importance to these people. We pile see further illustration of this idea through the celebration as kidskinren celebrates and â€Å"sings” after cosmos given(p) water. The excitement of people can also be seen from the structure of the poem, seen from the enjambment which ran from the third stanza until the end of the poem, we can see the tone being very fire that there wasn’t a pause, contrasting with the first stanza where the short and slow lines reflects the lack of energy. The most observable example is: â€Å"every man woman child for streets around butts in”\r\nWe would expect commas being used between man woman child, but there isn’t, showing the excitement and the hurry. The poet also cleverly uses the stanza distance to reflect the sum of water and excitement, with the 3rd stanza being the pinnacle of the event, there are and it differs from the short initiatory stanza which suggests The use of onomatopoeia and oxymoron also highlights the importance of water: â€Å" hazard the drip of it, the pure splash, echo”\r\nThe poet describes a small drip of water having a echo, which is usually associated with large-mouthed items, and it gives us an idea of how a small amount of water can be seen as a huge importance to these people.\r\n'

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