"How does the poet use the theme to present a happy event in the poem Blessing compare this with a poem of your choice?"

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"How does the poet use the theme to present a happy event in the poem ‘Blessing’ compare this with a poem of your choice?"The poet in the poem ‘Blessing’ uses the theme to present a happy event which is ‘...The municipal pipe...’ that bursts which is a ‘...voice of a kindly god’ these two quotes clearly connote that water is precious to them and is treated religiously and there is never enough of it. After many days in which ‘The skin cracks like a pod.’ Their prayers have finally been answered. Correspondingly, in the poem ‘Island Man’ the poet uses the theme to present a happy event is where he talks about his island and when the ‘island man wakes up to the sound of blue surf’ it could be interpreted that the island man feels alone in his actual
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situation and dreams about the ‘blue surf’ whenever possible, it shows that to the ‘Island Man’ his home island is as precious as water for the inhabitants in the poem ‘Blessing’. The effect on the reader is that we comprehend that what we take for granted for some people is like ‘silver’ and makes us realise how lucky we are but it also makes us feel sorry for the people in the poem where ‘There is never enough water.’ In the poem ‘Island Man’ a similar theme is introduced because some people that came abroad from different countries just like ...

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