Motel Pool Essay

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“Motel Pool” from P.K page By: Azfar Wali After comprehensively reading and analyzing the six poems assigned to me in the visual-verbal collage assignment, I have chose to pick the poem called “Motel Pool” by a Canadian poet named P.K Page. The “Motel Pool” poem distinctively describes the obese children in the poem swimming in a pool resembling and behaving like an otter. Furthermore I have decided to characterize this poem by breaking it down into part; one would be the use of text to illustrate the imagery in the poem. In my personal opinion I believe the most valuable and important phrase in this poem are “The plump good-natured children play in the blue pool: roll and plop, plop and roll;” (stanza one) and “slide and tumble, oiled, in the slippery sun silent as otters, turning over and in,” (stanza two). This stanza represents the imagery of obese children swimming and behaving like otters and enjoying themselves in the pool. The image that crosses my mind as I read the following stanza “The plump good-natured children play in the blue pool: roll and plop, plop and roll;” (stanza one), are obese children swimming in a nice pool. The other images that comes up in my mind while reviewing this stanza “slide and tumble, oiled, in the slippery sun silent as otters, turning over and in,” (stanza two). This image makes me think of a slip and slide. Since otters have nothing to do while playing in a pool, the writer uses this image so the readers can imagine the children playing in the pool and swim like an otters do in the water. In conclusion the two images described in this assignment entwine together and shows how these children that are obese are doing nothing productive with their time like
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