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Sustainability Poem

What Is The Poem About?

The poem ‘Water Devil’ is about conserving water and the environment where you would find a natural water source such as a lake, as well as targeting the issue surrounding climate change and global warming.

What is the poem about?

Water Devil

Spout of a leaf,

listen out for the screams

of your relentless audience:

the applause of a waterfall

in the distance,

a hurricane looting

a Miami shopping mall.

How careful you are

with the rain-cradling

curve of your back.

Near your forest,

all are ready to swim

and happy to drown

in me: this lake of fire

that moats the edges.

From my mouth,

they come to peel the flames

and drink their slick throats

into the most silent

of ashes.

The Actual Poem

Techniques Used.

These are the techniques that the poet used to convey the message of the poem.

Techniques used

Technique 1

This poem contains a variety of different poetic devices to create a mood, set the setting and plot the idea of the poem. Sibilance is used throughout the poem with the use of the letter ‘s’ as it represents the sound of a waterfall.

Technique 1

Technique 2

The use of personification in the line “a hurricane looting a Miami shopping mall’ puts the image into the reader’s head that the hurricane is demolishing its path of destruction.

Technique 2

What is the poet trying to say about sustainability?

The poet is trying to tell the reader that we need to conserve water and cool down our planet because if we don't, the future is uncertain for not only humans, but also every other living species on the earth. They are trying to persuade us into taking action against the world's problems because we can do something about them.

What is the composer trying to say about sustainability

Poem's Context

The poet who wrote the poem "Water Devil" is named Jamaal May and he grew up in Detroit, Michigan. In his spare time, May teaches poetry at many different schools around America. When he is not teaching poetry, he is a freelance sound engineer. He writes a variety of different poems, touching on topics from sad to happy.

Poem's context

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