Blessing

Blessing

1. Meaning or Purpose

   • To emphasise the how starved of resources these people are by showing what their reaction is to be able to access such a simple neccessity to life

2. Language

   • story-telling narrative
   • alliteration to draw attention
     • 'small splash'
       • shows how treasured the smallest amount is
   • punctuation to increase pace and a frantic tone or lack of to slow it down
     • 'with pots,brass,copper,aluminium, plastic buckets, frantic hands'

3. Imagery

   • religious imagery
     • 'voice of a kindly god'
     • 'Blessing' - the title itself
   • 'the skin cracks like a pod'
     • blunt, shocking the reader, cutting right to the point

4. Structure

   • freeverse
   • cyclical structure
   • erratic rhyme
   • varied sentence length
     • short for the absence and long for the flow of water

5. Themes

   • desperation
   • poverty
   • divinity