BLESSING Flashcards
‘the skin cracks like a pod’
Consonance represents cracking
Simile
Top skin of earth or human skin
Pods need water to grow and can give new life if watered
‘the small splash’
Sibilance
Onomatopoeia
Sensory poem
‘there never is enough water’
‘Never’ in wrong position in sentence
Emphasises point
‘the municipal pipe bursts… silver crashes… the flow has found a roar of tongues’
Enjambment
Shows how quick everything is happening
Represents water flowing now continuously
‘tin… silver crashes’
Sibilance
Connotations of extreme value and preciousness
Contrast to tin at the start which is inexpensive
‘liquid sun’
How water is just as valuable as the sun
Needed for life and growth
‘pots, brass, copper, aluminium, plastic buckets, frantic hands’
Asyndetic listing
Creates idea of chaos
Decreasing in value shows richer people got there first
‘screaming’
Loaded word
Positive here
‘small bones’
Negative word
Shows they are skinny and ill because of poverty and lack of water
‘blessing’
Religious positive connotations
Water is a blessing
Meter/rhyme?
Free verse -
Stanzas?
Irregular
Shows water and its ever changing state
Form reflects the subject matter
