The Motel Pool by P.K Page is about summer, and how the water and happiness brings the season to life. It shows the pool, and people swimming, enjoying themselves, but also portraying a much more meaning image that shows that is it more than an average motel. It describes the children in the poem swimming in a pool, resembling and behaving like an otter, which shows animal imagery. It symbolizes the purity of adolescence focusing on the practical or negative side of things, but rather on the simple joys that they may feel. “Motel Pool”, by P.K Page enhances a variety of literary devices like imagery and symbolism. The quotation begins with water imagery, “The plump good-natured children play in the blue pool”, and which portrays the pool as an old motel pool. The kids playing in the pool…show more content… Likewise, “churning the water; or-seamstresses-cut and sew”, represents a metaphor. This metaphor describes the kids moving in the water. The jackknives support the imagery of the water. It symbolizes the ripple effect in the water. This shows that it is making an effect in the pool. The bubbles in this picture show movement. The fourth stanza provides the reader with the importance of children leaving the pool and how the sun reflects off the children, and the pool water. The concepts of someone being “rimmed in the light” portrays an angelic image for the reader. “Limned with light” shows god imagery. The children portray as god-sent, and symbolise as innocent, and naïve individuals. The flesh and flash displays water imagery. The wet skin of the children, and the light bouncing off of them, and on to the grass. “Not beautiful, but suddenly limned with light”, alliteration is seen in the phrases, "limned with light” and “flesh in a flash” which are significant as they roll off the reader’s tongue easily just like the children swimming in
