The Water Diviner By Abse

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In his poem The Water Diviner, Dannie Abse utilizes water and the creativity it symbolizes to depict a crisis of confidence. He approaches his thesis in a rather straightforward method and begins the poem by stating “I have come to a parched land […] water split, swallowed in the sand.” Abse attempts to provide his audience with imagery of a man who doubts himself when his creativity fails. In the second stanza, the man “holds the divining pen twisting in hand, hears the tickle of water, and stands in a stretch silence.” This imagery serves to emphasize the creativity that the man once held and to contrast with the man’s circumstance. Clearly, the man suffers not only from the loss of creativity but also from the doubt/fear that his creativity

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