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Miracle on St. David's Day by Gillian Clarke - How does the poet use subject, theme, language and poetic techniques to engage the reader?
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Miracle on St. David's Day by Gillian Clarke How does the poet use subject, theme, language and poetic techniques to engage the reader? The poem is about a 'miracle' that occurs on St. David's Day, when a dumb man is touched by the power of a poem. The poet, Gillian Clarke, visits a mental hospital and recites poems to the patients. One of the poems that Gillian Clarke reads is called 'The Daffodils' by William Wordsworth. The continuous theme running throughout Gillian Clarke's poem is the healing power of nature and how nature can even cure the damaged minds of people who were thought of as incurable. Gillian Clarke finds nature of great importance. This may be the reason she reads the poem 'The Daffodils' at the mental hospital in the first place. I am lead to believe that she starts reading the poem and the dumb man follows on from her...
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