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    The poem describes a rural community celebrating a rare instance of water flowing freely after a council pipe bursts. In just a few lines, the poem establishes that water is scarce in the community, depicting it as a precious resource using religious language and metaphor. When the pipe bursts, the villagers rush eagerly with containers to collect water, including innocent children who are parched and malnourished from the lack of water. The poem highlights the community's poverty and reliance on water for survival in just a few vivid images and details.

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    The poem describes a rural community celebrating a rare instance of water flowing freely after a council pipe bursts. In just a few lines, the poem establishes that water is scarce in the community, depicting it as a precious resource using religious language and metaphor. When the pipe bursts, the villagers rush eagerly with containers to collect water, including innocent children who are parched and malnourished from the lack of water. The poem highlights the community's poverty and reliance on water for survival in just a few vivid images and details.

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    Blessing

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    The poem describes a rural community celebrating a rare instance of water flowing freely after a council pipe bursts. In just a few lines, the poem establishes that water is scarce in the community, depicting it as a precious resource using religious language and metaphor. When the pipe bursts, the villagers rush eagerly with containers to collect water, including innocent children who are parched and malnourished from the lack of water. The poem highlights the community's poverty and reliance on water for survival in just a few vivid images and details.

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    Blessing

    Imtiaz Dharker

    Narrator: Barbara Njau


    Water plays an integral role in
    giving life and causing death

    Simile emphasises water scarcity


    and how parched their skin is
    Opening couplet
    Declarative sentence gets to
    the core issue of water scarcity
    Imperative sentence puts us in their shoes
    Onomatopoeia: vividly shows how rare it is
    Pre-modifier shows and how celebrated it is in this community
    how modest and rural
    this community is Metaphor depicts water as a God - it
    has the power to give and take life
    Caesura Enjambment speeds up the pace of the poem
    Sibilance - smooth sounds
    echoes the gushing of water Council pipe bursts causing
    water to flow freely
    Semantic field of wealth:
    water is valuable Dramatic verb
    Alliteration emphasises how
    Onomatopoeia and common
    rapid the movement of water is
    noun 'tongues' shows they are
    parched and thirsty Poor, rural setting - likely in
    Caesura a developing country
    Religious language - like a religious gathering

    Asyndeton shows how rushed The action is ubiquitous in the village


    and frenzied they all are
    Asyndeton highlights rural, domestic containers
    - emphasises how remote they are

    Verb shows how desperately they need water


    - perhaps there is a famine or drought
    Enjambment emphasises their innocence
    Pre-modifier 'liquid' creates a beautiful but
    Innocence and youth of children
    dazzling image of light - yet the sun is the reason
    for the water shortage
    Alliteration
    emphasises their
    Personification of
    Adjective shows rural poverty beauty
    water as it falls on
    and how malnourished and their bodies
    poor they are - poignant image
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