how is the present world of the dolphin as depicted in the poem the dolphin is different from their old one?
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The dolphin says that the pool they live now can never be as vast and deep as their previous 'world', the ocean. The narrow pool limits their dreams. ... There is a stark contrast with the life of joy the dolphins had in their natural habitat and their present life in the pool where a man controls their movements
Answer : In the poem ‘The Dolphins’ the contrast between man-made world and the world of nature is clear. The man-made world can only be artificial, limited and joyless. On the other hand, the world of nature is real, joyful and limitless. Animals are meant to live in the world of nature. They live there happily. When they are removed from their natural habitats, they remain unhappy and yearn for their freedom. This is how the captive dolphin expresses its anguish in its new man-made world.
We were blessed and now we are not blessed.
A dolphin is known to receive a lot of information through its skin. It has a highly developed sonar. And yet in the new man-made world it is unable to make any sense of its existence. There is no explanation as to why it is there. It does not find any truth in the new world. The only thing the dolphins can understand is that once they were blessed and that now they are not blessed. The limited space in the pool which they have to travel again and again has become monotonous. The expression ‘above it is the man’ reveals the superiority and the culpability of humans in the abduction and control of the dolphins.