The poems Belfast Confetti and At The Border are very similar and different at the same time. Belfast Confetti is based in Ireland (Belfast) during the time of the civil war. This was the era of Irish nationalist terrorism that marked UK social and political life from the 1970s to the 1990s. The conflict was mainly a religious and political one. This poem is in first person and explains the persons feelings using punctuation language. The man in the poem is facing his own conflict in his head due to the conflict going on around him. He is trying to go home to be safe what we call a safe haeven, the place he feels most safe in, but the surrounding conflict had him going insane in his head.
Whereas in the poem At The Border, the conflict is about a country fighting each other over reasons to do with religion and politics. In this poem, it tells us about a life of a young girl who had to migrate to a country next to her original country iraq. She migrated to a country called kurdistan to get away for all the violence there was in her country iraq, but what this poem is trying to show is the journey she makes with the remaining of her family back to iraq from kurdistan after the civil war ended. She wasnt alone with her family, the poem mentions ” dozens of families waited in the rain”. This helps us understand that it wasnt only this girl and her family who were migrating back to their
The first stanza sets the scene of vaudevue’s death by giving us a feeling that she is somewhere no one wants to be and she has no hope of living. the first stanza keeps on mentioning that she is alone and it shows that she is vulnerable and that she is sitting on a round flat stone. The fact she is alone is horrible and in the first stanza it mentions there was a battle on the field of austerlitz and that she is a female soldier, when you put two and two together it could mean that she was injured in the battle and everyone has left her by herself all alone and cold on this round flat stone.
The poem is subtitled “incident in a future war” because it is set in the future and the poem tells us this. In the second stanza, it states that there is a gas (M.L.5) which makes you loose your memory, we do not have this gas in this day an age so this helps us know that this is set in the future because the gas will be invented in the future as a weapon.
To create a feeling of sadness in the poem, ciara carson used different techniques to imply that the character vaudevue is upset and alone, for example she used rhyme to show that she is upset. “her fingers tap the ground, she is ALONE, at midnight in the moonlight she is sitting alone on a round flat STONE. This is a very good use of the technique rhyme because it gives the reader the feeling that vaudevue is upset and alone because of the words the words she used to rhyme with.
The poem we were analyzing in class was based on the happenings after 9/11 and to me it perceived how Muslims were looked at after the doings of the sad event. The poem was titled “the right word” and it was by a woman called Imtiaz Dharkar.
This poem is very odd, because it seems that Dharker was questioning herself and what she was saying. For example she goes on about a shadow outside her door which then apparently it then becomes a terrorist, then a martyr, and then a child…
I believe that the message trying to be shown is that not all muslims are terrorists and that the way you percieve a muslim all depends on what you have heard from others. A child who is muslim can be percieved as a terrorist but are they really??? how do you know ? there just a child but what makes them a terrorist is thast they are muslim.
Her confusion is showing that there really is no way to describe a terrorist because it can be anyone even YOU!