Question

Describe the irony in the poem done through the images of water . Refers to lines 1 and 2 whose face do i behold

Answer 1

Answer:

1. Whose face I do behold, mirrored

2. Upon the water I have boiled to drink?

3. I dare not to drink the vision I may

4. Prolong!

5. If I die, bury me not

6. At the Cross of San Felix; bury me

7. Under your fingernails, that I may

8. Be eaten along with every food you eat;

9. that I may

10. Be drunk along with every cup

11. Of water you drink.

Answer 2

We are asked to describe the irony of the poem which is shown by the images of water. The irony of the poem that is shown through the images of water is as under:

• The irony described in the poem is situational irony.
• The poet and his crew are shipwrecked and are left to fend for themselves in the middle of the vast ocean.
• So as they are shipwrecked they have no food or water to drink and it is very difficult to keep up their energy.
• As they are in the middle of the ocean there is water all around them but they cannot even drink one drop of it.
• So this is the irony that the poet is talking about through the 1 and 2 lines of the poem.
• So as this irony is in the situation where the poet and his crew members find themselves it can be described as situational irony.

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