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"BLESSING" - Imtiaz Dharker
This poem is about a water pipe bursting in a village. It describes the rush of the village to go recieve some of this blessing. This sudden deliverance of water is seen as a blessing because it is set in a place where water is scarce and the surface of the land is described as dry skin cracking like a pod.
Language Techniques: Simile- "The skin cracks like a pod." This example is describing the surface of the ground. It helps to paint a vivid picture of dry dirt in the reader's head, and has an eerie, dystopian effect on the reader. Personification - "...as the blessing sings over small bones." This line helps us to imagine just what it would be like to take a long drink after being almost permanently thirsy for a long period of time. Especially for someone who is weak from the exhaustion of heat and malnourishment. It leaves the poem with a thankful ring to it.
By Sophie Bialostocki
My favorite line: "Imagine the drip of it, the small splash, echo in a tin mug, the voice of a kindly god." I like this line because its almost as if God is using the sound of the drop of water to reassure the people who are thirsty and hungry that he is there with them.
