Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Blessing
- 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
- 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'
- 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
- Structure
- freeverse
- cyclical structure
- erratic rhyme
- varied sentence length
- short for the absence and
long for the flow of water
- Themes
- desperation
- poverty
- divinity