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What is the theme or message in this poem?
Cold Knap Lake
We once watched a crowd
pull a drowned child from the lake.
Blue-lipped and dressed in water's long green silk
she lay for dead.
Then kneeling on the earth,
a heroine, her red head bowed,
her wartime cotton frock soaked,
my mother gave a stranger's child her breath.
The crowd stood silent,
drawn by the dread of it.
The child breathed, bleating
and rosy in my mother's hands.
My father took her home to a poor house
and watched her thrashed for almost drowning.
Was I there?
Or is that troubled surface something else
shadowy under the dipped fingers of willows
where satiny mud blooms in cloudiness
after the treading, heavy webs of swans
as their wings beat and whistle on the air?
All lost things lie under closing water
in that lake with the poor man's daughter.
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The first part speaks for itself, the long green silk being the reeds from the water.
The narrator's mother resuscitates the drowned girl.
She's taken home to her father who beats her ( I'm sure only out of fear and love :/ )
Now here's the theme. She can't be sure if she was there or if she was told, her memory is not clear " troubled, shadowy, mud blooms in cloudiness, etc.
Finaly, she thinks she'll never remember.
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