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