Media and literature tends to exclude the stories and experiences of those with next to nothing from everyday consumption of the general public. Author Imtiaz Dharker fights against this notion in her poem titled “Blessing”. Within this poem, Dharker seeks to depict the frantic behavior and actions of a desperate third-world society when water, what they consider their salvation to be, becomes accessible. In doing so, Imtiaz Dharker brings to light and develops understanding of the thought that circumstance changes the values of individual cultures or groups. In the first stanza Dharker sets the scene of poverty and distress with the use of two short, simple lines. These lines clearly present a village lacking readily available water …show more content…
This diction is present in the lines “Sometimes, the sudden rush/ of fortune.” (Imtiaz Dharker, 7-8). The phrase “sudden rush” demonstrates water as a resource exclusively present in short bursts, as is described in this poem. The use of the word “fortune” to describe water adds value to water as readers would generally associate the word “fortune” with an influx of money at a casino rather than something as simple as water. A lack of punctuation is also adopted in this stanza, “...From the huts,/a congregation: every man woman/child for streets around/butts in, with pots,/brass, copper, aluminum,/plastic buckets,/frantic hands.” (Dharker, 11-17). The punctuation, or lack thereof, forces readers to increase the speed at which they read, adding tangible experience to the reader as they attempt to place themselves in these circumstances. Another aspect adding tangible experience to readers is the shift in length of each individual verse. The short length of the first tells the readers that what is described is how it is and it’s as simple as that, but the increase of the second in length displays that while there is a general acceptance of the circumstances that does not prevent the villagers from dreaming. This provides an interesting insight. As will be discussed shortly, the
The alliteration used is to emphasize rhythm in the poem. On the other hand, the poet also depicts a certain rhyme scheme across each stanza. For example, the first stanza has a rhyme scheme of this manner a, b, c, d, e, a. With this, the rhyme scheme depicted is an irregular manner. Hence, the poem does not have a regular rhythm. Moreover, the poet uses a specific deign of consonance, which is present in the poem (Ahmed & Ayesha, p. 11). The poet also uses the assonance style depicted in the seventh stanza, “Seven whole days I have not seen my beloved.” The letter ‘o’ has been repeated to create rhythm and to show despair in the poem. On the second last line of the seventh stanza, the poet uses the style of consonance, “If I hug her, she’ll drive illness from me. By this, the letter ‘l’ is repeated across the line. The poet’s aim of using this style of Consonance is to establish rhythm in the poem and add aural
Stanza one is set in the morning at breakfast time. It involves the mother and her child. Instead of the usual loving mother, we see a cold mother and one that is doubtful of her lover for her own child. Dawe uses cold language such as ‘beneficence’, ‘beamed’ and ‘laminex’ as well has the pause after ‘she loves him’ to signify this. The pair are also conveyed to be separate from each other, symbolised by them being on opposite sides of the breakfast table.
In the novel Poor People, written by William T. Vollmann asks random individuals if they believe they are poor and why some people are poor and others rich. With the help of native guides and translators, and in some cases their family members, they describe what they feel. He depicts people residing in poverty with individual interviews from all over earth. Vollmann’s story narrates their own individual lives, the situations that surround them, and their personal responses to his questions. The responses to his questions range from religious beliefs that the individual who is poor is paying for their past sins from a previous life and to the rational answer that they cannot work. The way these individuals live their life while being in poverty
This poem captures the immigrant experience between the two worlds, leaving the homeland and towards the new world. The poet has deliberately structured the poem in five sections each with a number of stanzas to divide the different stages of the physical voyage. Section one describes the refugees, two briefly deals with their reason for the exodus, three emphasises their former oppression, fourth section is about the healing effect of the voyage and the concluding section deals with the awakening of hope. This restructuring allows the poet to focus on the emotional and physical impact of the journey.
The poet shows that this simple, pleasant memory and how it re-in-acts his childhood. The way in which the windmills squeaks and groans to bring water from the ground whereas during the period of rain they work in harmony, as the rain comes down. The poem is gentle and nostalgic. It seeks not only to recreate the scene for the reader, but to have the reader feel the day to day struggle of living in the hash Australian outback, the struggle of agriculture during a drought.
Some people would argue that God is not real or that none of these events are real and they just happen, no one makes them happen. There is also a lot of rhyming in this people for example in line five, the word “vast” rhymes with the word “cast” in line six. Also in line eleven the word “locks” rhymes with “Box”. It also repeats the word “who” twelve times, and uses the “w” sound twenty five times words such as “who, where, with, which, work, wherein, what” Another rhyme in the poem is “sun” and “spun”, “stands” and “hands”, “fine” and “Smaragdine”. The poem also uses a lot of inversion, one example would be “Upon what Base was fixed the Lathe, wherein” line
The dry, emotionally and spiritually barren village, and the villagers as an extension of the village, then encountered inexorable changes. A poetic sense slowly stepped into...
Not only the words, but the figures of speech and other such elements are important to analyzing the poem. Alliteration is seen throughout the entire poem, as in lines one through four, and seven through eight. The alliteration in one through four (whisky, waltzing, was) flows nicely, contrasting to the negativity of the first stanza, while seven through eight (countenance, could) sound unpleasing to the ear, emphasizing the mother’s disapproval. The imagery of the father beating time on the child’s head with his palm sounds harmful, as well as the image of the father’s bruised hands holding the child’s wrists. It portrays the dad as having an ultimate power over the child, instead of holding his hands, he grabs his wrists.
During the process of growing up, we are taught to believe that life is relatively colorful and rich; however, if this view is right, how can we explain why literature illustrates the negative and painful feeling of life? Thus, sorrow is inescapable; as it increase one cannot hide it. From the moment we are born into the world, people suffer from different kinds of sorrow. Even though we believe there are so many happy things around us, these things are heartbreaking. The poems “Tips from My Father” by Carol Ann Davis, “Not Waving but Drowning” by Stevie Smith, and “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop convey the sorrow about growing up, about sorrowful pretending, and even about life itself.
Religious cultures of the world face the difficult of poverty and their beliefs on poverty. Societies believe that many different things cause poverty, as well as ways of surviving it. Poverty isn’t just about being rich or poor, it is also about what causes poverty and how to understand the reason for it. Many cultures have their own beliefs as to why poverty exists as well as how to contribute to it. In this essay, I will be discussing three major cultures and their beliefs on poverty. Buddhism, Jainism, and Hinduism are the cultures of study. This essay will be comparing and contrasting their beliefs of why it exists and how they deal with poverty. Also, explaining why each of the cultures beliefs more in depth, helping people understand the societies better with a more detailed background.
By examining ways to bridge the gap between poverty and society, one identifies that the solution is not easy. There are a plethora of structural issues including economics and identity that play a part in the culture. Generation after generation seem to fall prey to a culture of poverty and thus, the onlooker must determine how to help these people out of an abyss. In addition, the assumptions that onlookers place on poverty deface the culture’s sense of
Poor People struggles to confront poverty in all its hopelessness and brutality, its pride and abject fear, its fierce misery and quiet resignation, allowing the poor to explain the causes and consequences of their impoverishment in their own cultural, social, and religious terms. With intense compassion and a scrupulously unpatronizing eye, Vollmann invites his readers to recognize in our fellow human beings their full dignity, fallibility, pride, and pain, and the power of their hard-fought resilience.William T. Vollmann goes to different parts around the world to interview different people and to ask about poverty. With the help of interpreters he holds the interview with randomly selected individuals.
The poem is divided into 2 Stanza's with 3 lines each. And there are an
The title of the poem is ''Blessing'' and the poet is called Imtiaz Dharker. In my essay I will be looking at how the poet describes a culture different from our own and explaining how the poet brings this culture to life through his use of poetic techniques. The poem is set in a third world country which is in desperate need for water. A municipal pipe bursts and suddenly there is a flurry of people rushing to get that much desired water.
Nowadays, when people hear stories in relation to poverty, they pay no attention or think of it as something of rare importance. It’s as if poverty is a normal thing. It’s as if starvation is a normal lifestyle for the needy. What people these days don’t have is the ability to feel empathy towards the needy. They don’t comprehend that these needy people merrily have skin to protect their bones. What if we all try to step into the needy’s shoes and view life according to their footsteps. Maybe then we can comprehend how these people suffer. Maybe, just maybe.