Dahker uses two simple sentences at the start of the poem to create a sense of their not being "enough water". this suggests that the peot feels stongly about there being a water shortage.Because the sentences are stoped it means that water is not continuous and that we shouldn't take it for granted as one day it will be gone.
Dharker uses enjambent to create a flow to the poem. 'every man woman child for streets around'. This creates a sense of unity between the man, woman and child by not including a comma; it brings them closer togther. Also it creates a flow to the poem by not having comma's. by matthew
The poem "Blessing" uses differant structural techniques to support the meaning of the poem. Dharker uses differant sentence lengths to add emphasis to the lack of water in India. " There is never enough water." The abrupt end to this sentence easily implies that they dont have alot of water and adds emphasis to the fact that these people are suffering thouroughout most of the poem.
The shape of the poem Blessing is made to look like a tap. The shape is like a tap to represent the meaning of the poem. The poem talks about water being cherished and loved by the people, and the tap is there to show their source of life and happiness.
enjaubment - this structual feature helps support the meaning of the peom by creating a visual flowing picture supporting the lack of water there is. 'the sudden rush of fortune'. This device helps the poem to flow of the tongue and emphasis' how little water there is. lucy.w
The structure of Blessing supports the meaning of the poem by using different devises. "Every man women child for streets around butts in," The use of enjambement makes the reader feel that the people of this water deprived country untie to help each other gain clean water. This supports the struture and meaning of the poem by saying that clean water is a rare moment and that everyone is starved of water. Pippa Burge
Dharker uses a range of different length sentences in Blessing to describe the amount of water. At the beginning of the poem Dharker uses short sentences to emphasise the amount of water they have in every day life. ‘The skin cracks like a pod. There is never enough water.’ These sentences are blunt and get to the point fast. Whereas as the poem goes on and the sentences suddenly get longer when water starts. ‘The municipal…small bones.’ These sentences emphasise the amount of water there is and how excited people are to get this water. When you read it you automatically read it faster because there are no full stops thus emphasising the rush.
In the poem "Blessing" the poet Dharkar uses a lack of punctuation to show the unity of evey man , women and child. " Every man women and child ".This shows that they are in unity because a comma would seperate then and now there is nothing to keep them apart .
Dharker uses punctuation to create lists and add structure to his poem. 'butts in, with pots,brass...' This adds structure to Dharkers poem by making it flow very quickly and creating the effect of water running.
Imtiaz Dharker uses different techniques of structure, such as sentence length. The two line paragraph at the start of the poem is a good example of short sentence lengths. “The skin cracks like a pod. There is never enough water.” These sentences are effective at getting straight to the point and stating the cruel truth of the water droughts. The sentence is short and therefore emphasises the words, making them seem more dramatic.
Dharker uses sentence lenght in the poem "Blessing" to show how much water means people in different countries.There is two short sentences to start with "The skin cracks like a pod. There is never enough water." The effect of short the sentences at the start to describe that there is never any water is that the fact they are on there own enfercizes the terrible fact about water. Another sentence structure Dharker uses to create an effect is as the poem goes on the sentences get longer. "Imagine the drip of it, the small splash, echo in a tin mug, the voice of a kindly god." The effect of the sentences getting longer as the poem goes on is that the second stanser says about the water pipe bursting so it gives a sence of the water flowing in the sentences.
In the poem ‘Blessing’ Imtiaz Dharker uses structure to support the meaning of the poem. One of the techniques Dharker uses is Short sentences to start the poem and longer ones in the middle. This shows at the start there is unhappiness and No water, as the poem goes on pipe Bursts and there is people rushing toward the water and happiness.
Secondly, in ‘blessing’ Imtiaz Dharker uses sentence structure to support the meaning of the poem. Another Technique he uses is listing all the different materials the people are catching water with. This shows that they are all rushing and is Manic because everyone wants some water.
Dharker includes enjambement to influence the effect that "every man woman child" are in unity. She does this by not putting any commas between them therefore giving you the impresion that they are as one.
The structure of Blessing support the meaning of the poem by using a range of sentence lengths to the show how important water is to some people. The poem starts off with two simple sentences to create a harsh reality, " There is never enough water." This short sentence shows that its a form of desperation and suffering to the people who are living without water. Dharker uses long sentences which are spilt to give the impression that its short. "The municipal pipe bursts, silver crashes to the ground..." This sentence gives the impression as a quick flow to the poem, eventhough it is one big poem. The poem flows like water which is the basic meaning; the water is very important to the people who has none.
The structure of blessing supports the meaning of the poem by using different sentence structures the poem starts with two short sentences which get to the point of that there is no water in the place that it is set then when the water starts flowing the words start to flow more and the sentences become longer and also it only has commas not full stops like the first to senternces xxxj
Dharker incorporates a list into the third stanza to represent the fluidity of the water. The list conveys the desperation to attain water by the variety of objects used 'with pots, brass, copper, aluminium, plastic buckets, frantic hands, ' the continuity of this phrase emphasises the flow of the water and their determination to retrieve the liquid.
The writer uses enjament to make the poem flow well. This works very well because the reasons why its flowing is to recreate the water in the poem. It also makes the poem easier to read and more exciting for the reader.
Dharker uses a range of sentence structure for his poem ‘Blessing’. One of the features used is the sentence length written in the shape of waterfall. The middle section of the poem uses a variation of long and short sentences to image water flowing from a tap or a waterfall. The longest sentence “From the huts, a congregation : every man woman…” doesn’t use punctuation so separate the “man woman…”, this is called enjambment which is another feature used, which brings the people together as one species.
How does the poem’s structure support the meaning of the poem?
Dharker uses a combination of punctuation and enjambment in ‘Blessing’ to show the flow of water. The poem begins with short punctual sentences which emphasise the lack of flowing water. “There never is enough water.” The short sentences suggest to the reader that the water stops abruptly and that the people are suffering. However later on in the poem, as the pipe bursts, Dharker uses enjambment to represent the constant rush of water and that there is nothing to hold the people back anymore.
How does the poem's structure support the meaning of the poem?: The author of the poem, Imtiaz Dharker, uses an assortment of sentence lengths in Blessing to show how precious the water is. The poem starts with two short sentences which highlights this severe reality that "there never is enough water". The short sentences directly addresses the reader of the description and suffering of the people having live with a small amount of water. Although, once the pipe bursts, long sentences reflect the gushing flow of water and emphasise that the people have absoloutley nothing to resrict them any longer.
Dharker uses a range of poetry structures and techniques. The way in which Dharker aligns and shapes the poem is reflected on the flowing of the water, which is the meaning of the poem. The shape also empathizes the image of bursting water which is expressed to be incredibly honoured and a rich fortune. The shape is aligned in the shape of a tap with water bursting freely and sinuously, breaking free to a new place. Lottie.xoxoxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxdooxoxoxoxoxoxo :D
The structure in 'The Blessing' helps portray the suffering the people in India go through to find water. The poet, Imtiaz Dharker, uses sentence length to emphasise the point he is trying to create. At the start of Dharkers poem he uses short sentences to accentuate the fact that the lack of water is a devastatingly slow process. Dharker also uses enjambement in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th stanzas of his poem. This makes the poem read more quickly and sound like its flowing,he uses this at the time in the poem that the Indians find water, creating the effect that the poem is alive and joyfull with them.
Dharker uses enjambement in the poem 'Blessing' to portray the desperation for water, 'every man woman child for streets around butts in, with pots,brass,copper,aluminium,plastic buckets,frantic hands,'. This long list showing that locals are prepared to use anything they have to posses water, which to them is not a necessity but a luxury, shows how long they have been deprived of the substance we ourselves take for granted. The phrase 'frantic hands' shows the hurry they are in to embrace this minor miracle and the fact they will fill any pot or bucket in their grasp shows the respect they hold for water, a subtance to them that is so precious. By not using commas in the phrase 'every man woman child' the writer shows how this community is drawn together by the hope of the burst pipe, any feuds or worries between them forgotten as they fight to obtain what they have waited for, for what seems like an eternity, water.
In the poem ‘Blessing’, Dharker uses the sentence structure to show different things at relevant points in the poem such as ‘The skin crakes like a pod. There never is enough water.’ Theses short simple sentences highlight the fact that there is nothing there however in the third stanza ‘every man women child for the streets around butts in, with pots, brass, copper, aluminium, plastic buckets, frantic hand’ emphasises the quick running of the water by the commas following each noun in the list.
Dahker uses two simple sentences at the start of the poem to create a sense of their not being "enough water". this suggests that the peot feels stongly about there being a water shortage.Because the sentences are stoped it means that water is not continuous and that we shouldn't take it for granted as one day it will be gone.
ReplyDeleteDharker uses enjambent to create a flow to the poem.
ReplyDelete'every man woman
child for streets around'.
This creates a sense of unity between the man, woman and child by not including a comma; it brings them closer togther. Also it creates a flow to the poem by not having comma's. by matthew
The poem "Blessing" uses differant structural techniques to support the meaning of the poem. Dharker uses differant sentence lengths to add emphasis to the lack of water in India. " There is never enough water." The abrupt end to this sentence easily implies that they dont have alot of water and adds emphasis to the fact that these people are suffering thouroughout most of the poem.
ReplyDeleteThe shape of the poem Blessing is made to look like a tap. The shape is like a tap to represent the meaning of the poem. The poem talks about water being cherished and loved by the people, and the tap is there to show their source of life and happiness.
ReplyDeleteenjaubment - this structual feature helps support the meaning of the peom by creating a visual flowing picture supporting the lack of water there is. 'the sudden rush
ReplyDeleteof fortune'.
This device helps the poem to flow of the tongue and emphasis' how little water there is.
lucy.w
The structure of Blessing supports the meaning of the poem by using different devises.
ReplyDelete"Every man women
child for streets around
butts in,"
The use of enjambement makes the reader feel that the people of this water deprived country untie to help each other gain clean water. This supports the struture and meaning of the poem by saying that clean water is a rare moment and that everyone is starved of water.
Pippa Burge
Dharker uses a range of different length sentences in Blessing to describe the amount of water. At the beginning of the poem Dharker uses short sentences to emphasise the amount of water they have in every day life. ‘The skin cracks like a pod. There is never enough water.’ These sentences are blunt and get to the point fast. Whereas as the poem goes on and the sentences suddenly get longer when water starts. ‘The municipal…small bones.’ These sentences emphasise the amount of water there is and how excited people are to get this water. When you read it you automatically read it faster because there are no full stops thus emphasising the rush.
ReplyDeleteIn the poem "Blessing" the poet Dharkar uses a lack of punctuation to show the unity of evey man , women and child. " Every man women and child ".This shows that they are in unity because a comma would seperate then and now there is nothing to keep them apart .
ReplyDeleteDharker uses punctuation to create lists and add structure to his poem.
ReplyDelete'butts in, with pots,brass...'
This adds structure to Dharkers poem by making it flow very quickly and creating the effect of water running.
Imtiaz Dharker uses different techniques of structure, such as sentence length. The two line paragraph at the start of the poem is a good example of short sentence lengths. “The skin cracks like a pod. There is never enough water.” These sentences are effective at getting straight to the point and stating the cruel truth of the water droughts. The sentence is short and therefore emphasises the words, making them seem more dramatic.
ReplyDeleteDharker uses sentence lenght in the poem "Blessing" to show how much water means people in different countries.There is two short sentences to start with "The skin cracks like a pod. There is never enough water." The effect of short the sentences at the start to describe that there is never any water is that the fact they are on there own enfercizes the terrible fact about water.
ReplyDeleteAnother sentence structure Dharker uses to create an effect is as the poem goes on the sentences get longer. "Imagine the drip of it, the small splash, echo in a tin mug, the voice of a kindly god." The effect of the sentences getting longer as the poem goes on is that the second stanser says about the water pipe bursting so it gives a sence of the water flowing in the sentences.
In the poem ‘Blessing’ Imtiaz Dharker uses structure to support the meaning of the poem. One of the techniques Dharker uses is Short sentences to start the poem and longer ones in the middle. This shows at the start there is unhappiness and No water, as the poem goes on pipe Bursts and there is people rushing toward the water and happiness.
ReplyDeleteSecondly, in ‘blessing’ Imtiaz Dharker uses sentence structure to support the meaning of the poem. Another Technique he uses is listing all the different materials the people are catching water with. This shows that they are all rushing and is Manic because everyone wants some water.
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Dharker includes enjambement to influence the effect that "every man woman child" are in unity. She does this by not putting any commas between them therefore giving you the impresion that they are as one.
ReplyDeleteThe structure of Blessing support the meaning of the poem by using a range of sentence lengths to the show how important water is to some people.
ReplyDeleteThe poem starts off with two simple sentences to create a harsh reality, " There is never enough water." This short sentence shows that its a form of desperation and suffering to the people who are living without water.
Dharker uses long sentences which are spilt to give the impression that its short.
"The municipal pipe bursts, silver crashes to the ground..."
This sentence gives the impression as a quick flow to the poem, eventhough it is one big poem. The poem flows like water which is the basic meaning; the water is very important to the people who has none.
The structure of blessing supports the meaning of the poem by using different sentence structures the poem starts with two short sentences which get to the point of that there is no water in the place that it is set then when the water starts flowing the words start to flow more and the sentences become longer and also it only has commas not full stops like the first to senternces xxxj
ReplyDeleteDharker incorporates a list into the third stanza to represent the fluidity of the water. The list conveys the desperation to attain water by the variety of objects used 'with pots, brass, copper, aluminium, plastic buckets, frantic hands, ' the continuity of this phrase emphasises the flow of the water and their determination to retrieve the liquid.
ReplyDeleteThe writer uses enjament to make the poem flow well. This works very well because the reasons why its flowing is to recreate the water in the poem. It also makes the poem easier to read and more exciting for the reader.
ReplyDeleteDharker uses a range of sentence structure for his poem ‘Blessing’. One of the features used is the sentence length written in the shape of waterfall. The middle section of the poem uses a variation of long and short sentences to image water flowing from a tap or a waterfall. The longest sentence “From the huts, a congregation : every man woman…” doesn’t use punctuation so separate the “man woman…”, this is called enjambment which is another feature used, which brings the people together as one species.
ReplyDeleteHow does the poem’s structure support the meaning of the poem?
ReplyDeleteDharker uses a combination of punctuation and enjambment in ‘Blessing’ to show the flow of water. The poem begins with short punctual sentences which emphasise the lack of flowing water. “There never is enough water.” The short sentences suggest to the reader that the water stops abruptly and that the people are suffering. However later on in the poem, as the pipe bursts, Dharker uses enjambment to represent the constant rush of water and that there is nothing to hold the people back anymore.
How does the poem's structure support the meaning of the poem?:
ReplyDeleteThe author of the poem, Imtiaz Dharker, uses an assortment of sentence lengths in Blessing to show how precious the water is. The poem starts with two short sentences which highlights this severe reality that "there never is enough water". The short sentences directly addresses the reader of the description and suffering of the people having live with a small amount of water. Although, once the pipe bursts, long sentences reflect the gushing flow of water and emphasise that the people have absoloutley nothing to resrict them any longer.
Dharker uses a range of poetry structures and techniques. The way in which Dharker aligns and shapes the poem is reflected on the flowing of the water, which is the meaning of the poem. The shape also empathizes the image of bursting water which is expressed to be incredibly honoured and a rich fortune. The shape is aligned in the shape of a tap with water bursting freely and sinuously, breaking free to a new place.
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The structure in 'The Blessing' helps portray the suffering the people in India go through to find water. The poet, Imtiaz Dharker, uses sentence length to emphasise the point he is trying to create. At the start of Dharkers poem he uses short sentences to accentuate the fact that the lack of water is a devastatingly slow process. Dharker also uses enjambement in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th stanzas of his poem. This makes the poem read more quickly and sound like its flowing,he uses this at the time in the poem that the Indians find water, creating the effect that the poem is alive and joyfull with them.
ReplyDeleteDharker uses enjambement in the poem 'Blessing' to portray the desperation for water, 'every man woman child for streets around butts in, with pots,brass,copper,aluminium,plastic buckets,frantic hands,'. This long list showing that locals are prepared to use anything they have to posses water, which to them is not a necessity but a luxury, shows how long they have been deprived of the substance we ourselves take for granted. The phrase 'frantic hands' shows the hurry they are in to embrace this minor miracle and the fact they will fill any pot or bucket in their grasp shows the respect they hold for water, a subtance to them that is so precious. By not using commas in the phrase 'every man woman child' the writer shows how this community is drawn together by the hope of the burst pipe, any feuds or worries between them forgotten as they fight to obtain what they have waited for, for what seems like an eternity, water.
ReplyDeleteIn the poem ‘Blessing’, Dharker uses the sentence structure to show different things at relevant points in the poem such as ‘The skin crakes like a pod. There never is enough water.’ Theses short simple sentences highlight the fact that there is nothing there however in the third stanza ‘every man women child for the streets around butts in, with pots, brass, copper, aluminium, plastic buckets, frantic hand’ emphasises the quick running of the water by the commas following each noun in the list.
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