"Repair" is a poetical prose written by Finuala Dowling. We can call this poem poetical prose because of its visual structure. As we can see, this poem is not composed of verses or stanzas, but in a single paragraph, like an ordinary text, although it is a poem.
This poem can also be considered a narrative poem, as it presents a story told by the speaker with the presence of characters. It is common that poetic prose and narrative poems do not have rhymes, nor a definite metric system, and this is no different from "Repair," as it is not possible to identify these elements in the poem.
"Repair" is written in a single paragraph. In this paragraph, we can see that the speaker uses simple words, but direct and very objective, with little use of subjectivity.
In this poem, we can see themes such as solidarity, empathy and the capacity of time to heal individuals' emotional wounds. This can be seen in the story told in the poem, where the speaker shows that he and two other friends lost their mother at the age of four and suffered a lot from it, but they recovered from this suffering over time and are now cured adults, although they remember how sad it was to live a childhood without a mother.
These three adults decide to cheer up a little girl who lost her mother, also at the age of four. They start to play with her, caress her, buy her treats, but although she has a moment of joy, she always cries missing her mother, which shows that just like the speaker and his friends, only time will cure the little girl from that emotional wound.
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