Watching for Dolphins

dolphins

contrast

past

they have a connection with the divine word.

present

they are consider only as an attraction.

quotations

"Praying the sky would clang and the abused Aegean/reverberate with cymbal, gong and drum."

Represents the Aegean see who has been an abused see by human activity such as tourism.

"Eyes cast down"

represents the disappointment of people.

idea of religion

to divinize dolphins

like Mitological creatures

¨like satyrs¨

vocabulary

many references to religious

Ttle

represnts the conflict of the poem

dolphins starts with capital letter to make the reader focus on the word.

literary devices

repetition

of the word ¨one¨ in stanza 1 and 2

personification

of the dolphins ¨come smiling¨

simile

¨Stared like a saint¨

enjambment

perhaps it represents the movement of the sea.

Onomatopoeia

¨gong and drum¨

sibilance sound

Stanza 1

perhaps connected to the the movement of the sea

poem division

in 3 parts

the literal moment at the beginning

the dreamlike sequence

stanza 4 and 5

literal:arrival

last part

metaphorical view

people are not only there to see dolphins

perhaps, they want to disconnect from his busy life

characters

different stereotypes

the ones who just get married

the ones who take photos

the children

Shifts

pronoun change

stanza 4 and 5

¨we¨

stanza 1, 2 and 3

¨they¨

stanza 6

¨the company/dispersed"

there is no more group