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Blessing - Imatiaz Dharker - Coggle Diagram
Blessing - Imatiaz Dharker
Summary:
A drought - stricken community rejoices when a burst pipe releases water - a rare blessing- event treated as a miricle, highlighting the preciousness of water in a place of scarcity
Key Themes:
Poverty
Spiritual relief
Inequality
poverty and deprivation - describes a world where water is a luxery, not a given
spirituality and symbolism - water is a metaphor for divine blessing and life
contrast between abundance and sarcity
Structure
Blank verse
Free verse
enjambment Fluctuating stanza lengths - reflecting the mirror flow of water
Techniques:
Sensory image -
Metaphor ("silver crashes"
Personification - the skin "cracks like a pod"- linking human suffering with environmental dryness
imagery - "silver crashes tot he ground" - creating a visual and auditory effect of the water bursting out
Compare with:
War Photographer - (global suffering)
Prayer Before Birth - (suffering) and innocence
Half - Caste - (marginalised voices)
key things to remember:
dehumanisation of poverty
chremamorphic language
"Blessing" - connotations of religion - something given by a God as a reward / protection
water as life and wealth - in a drought ridden society water is the most valuable resouce
communal experience - suddenly water is available which unites the community in shared joy
irony - something mundane elsewhere is a miracle here - emphasising global inequality
symbol of purity and renewal - water is both cleansing and spiritually uplifting
Speaker
Omniscient heterodigetic