Watching for dolphins

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Characteristics of culture

par Sintia Madrid-Romero

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par Natasha Ameilda

The Palm Islands

par New Bank

Drought

par Joshua Whitaker-Lockwood

Watching for dolphins

Change of narrator

The poem starts with an impersonal narrator

Changes to a personal narrator

Isn't part of the crowd

He isn't part of the people that were waiting eagerly to see dolphins

Dolphins seen as unreachable

Seen as godlike creatures

People expected that once they saw them they would hear "gongs and drums"

Sounds that apear in the bible and related to praising gods

Literary devises

Onomatopeya

"Praying the sky would clang (...) gong and drum"

Sibilance

Gives an idea of the context

Sea or water near

Symbols

Black water

Not knowing whats underneath

Sense of loss

Chains

Sinking feeling

Spiritual things usually are upwards

Represent entrapment and inprisionment

Themes

Loss of hope

Environment

Semantic fields

Ancient Greece

Satyrs

Dolphins

Story of how they were created

Religion

Epiphany

Implored

Sign

Saint

Structure

3rd part, again, shows reality (stanza 6)

2nd part shows a kind of "dream" (stanzas 4 and 5)

"We should have laughed and lifted the children up"

1st part shows reality (stanzas 1 to 3)

Title

Makes the reader think that the people were going to see dolphins

In the end, they don't