Micheal Water Conjoins

In the poem called “The mystery of the caves”, the author Micheal Water mysteriously illustrates the conjoined predicament of a lost boy to the domestic situation of the speaker with the use of several literary techniques. Such techniques include Imagery and Symbolism which the author utilizes in order to construct the story of the speaker who finds himself in great domestic comfort once he reads about a boy with a similar sense of confusion and loss.

As the poem tries to introduce the domestic issue, the speaker begins with a wide description of the “lost boy” using imagery that conjoins the boy’s constant search for “light” to the speakers domestic issues. To show example; the speaker’s parents seem to undergo a separation as stated “my