Also in the poem they use similes. An example of a simile in Blessing would be “Skin cracks like a pod.” This means that they are so dehydrated and their skin and lips are becoming dry. Also the poet uses assonance. An example of assonance would be “Imagine the Drip of It”.
Imagine, Drip and It are the assonance by using and I sound. In the poem they describe there water as a “Voice of a God”. This means that it sounds like a God when the water is running smoothly.
Also “Voice of a kindly God” is a metaphor. In Blessing there are several alliterations including; “Small Splash, Flow Found, and Polished Perfection. These words are using the same first letter of each word to describe the water. Also the poet uses excitement by saying that “naked children
screaming in the liquid Sun.” this gives the impression that although the water pipe has burst, they are still having fun. In the poem also, the poet names different types of material that they use. “Pots, brass, copper, aluminium and plastic buckets.” This is describing the objects that they would have used to carry the water around. It also says “Their frantic hands.” This means that there hands were going very fast, and they are very excited.
“When a water tanker goes past, there's always a little child running behind the water tanker getting the bits of drips and it's like money, it's like currency. In a hot country in that kind of climate, it's like a gift.
And the children may have been brought up in the city and grown up as migrants, but the mothers will probably remember that in the village they came from, they would have to walk miles with pots to get to a well, to the closest water source. So it really is very precious. When the water comes, it's like a god.”
By Joshua Garcia
