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What have you learnt about different cultures from three poems you have studied?
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What have you learnt about different cultures from three poems you have studied? You should consider the following: * The way people feel, * Problems in their cultures, * The good side of their culture. Imtiaz Dharker author of 'Blessing' has written a descriptive poem, set in a hot country, where there is a shortage of water, as told in the opening lines of the poem where the human skin is compared to a seedpod, drying out till it cracks. The poem is set in India, in a village where there is poverty. We know that this because firstly there is a shortage of water, and secondly they live in huts. In the last line the author describes the children with 'their small bones'. This could mean that there is also a shortage of food or it can also emphasis the size of the small children. In line 18, when it says 'and naked...
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