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Blood is thicker than water


==**Blue Bottle Stranded on Bondi Beach** ==

And as I walked on Bondi's burnished sands  the Australian sun beating at my brow  my tender skin stepped upon a beating heart  blue-veined transparency  tendrils reaching for the unreachable sea  rounded body gelatinous and vulnerable  'Blue Bottle'  stranded pulsating jellyfish  lost and alienated from its shoal  when, in her fear  she whipped and stung and clung  numbing me into submission  but for a moment  then shivering as her strength depleted with the ebbing tide  her frightened eyes begged forgiveness <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> as I scratched and fumbled at the reddening wound <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> I left her lying there <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> then, turning back with towelled hands <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> I bent over her <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> clasped her greasy roundness <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> so small against my shadow <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> and within a wind's breath <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> my jellyfish tasted salty waters <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> while the white horses claimed their prodigal mermaid <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> as she vanished into their unfathomable watery stables <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> and I began to limp homeward on burnished sands

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> Bondi Beach,1987

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal;">Penny Hemans

This commentary is on the poem "Blue Bottle Stranded on Bondi Beach" by Penny Hemans Throughout this poem there is no essence of rhyme. Which is very different compared to other poems. The language used is not a common type of English and can often be quite difficult to read fluently, this makes the reader take his/her time so that they can understand the tricky language and understand the meaning behind it. In the last few lines, adjectives are used to make the objective sounds more in depth and interesting. Adjectives are usually common in poems as they help describe the surroundings and allow the reader to have a visual image in their mind.

The typical Australian beach culture is probably the one of the main stereotypes of the typical Australian male; a non-Australian might picture the Australian surfer as a lonely person walking along the golden sands of an empty beach. This image is quite present in the poem and does give the reader a sense of what it is like to be Australian. Each line in this poem is short, which allows the reader to read at a steady pace and not get out of breath with large sentences. The language used in this poem is not simple and easy to understand language. You have to be confident in reading English to be able to understand some of the tricky language used in this poem. ”… tendrils reaching for the unreachable sea…” “…rounded body gelatinous and vulnerable …” This poem uses adjectives to give the person a sense of what it is like at Bondi and describes the blue bottle and how it has been alienated from its group.The use of technical words in the poem gives the reader an understanding of what it is really like for the blue bottle and this is why I picked this poem.

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