Month: April 2015

At the border and Belfast confetti present how conflict can affect feelings about a place. The poet presents the idea of war which can affect feelings towards people. This is expresses through unnecessary features used in the poem.

First of all the poem at the border, the poem expresses home as a missed wonderland. The poem explains when a man bent down and kissed his muddy land, which is seen in the last stanza. The poem explains the country that immigrating back too as a peaceful and wonderful land with cleaner roads as well as the landscape and a neater country. The use of adverbs describes a clear understanding of their homeland and also that it is better than the country where she left. The poet is focusing on migration, she left Iraq and entered Kurdistan, she’s returning back to Iraq the fourth stanza shows when her mother informed her, say we are going home. It was a joyless experience. The use of repetition represents her mother feeling more at home because, the roads are much cleaner and the landscape is more beautiful.

On the other hand. Belfast confetti, the poem expresses a devastating war because one nation are fighting over political and religious problems.The poem is in the middle of a conflict it present the poet trying to escape. The poem explains how destructive the conflict is, which is seen in all the stanza when the poem used punctuation, the poet could not complete his sentence because he was petrified of the chaotic seen which the poet is witnessing.Any corners he turns he just witnessing a battle. A use of nouns was used in the first stanza Nuts, bolts, nails, car-keys which was a list of weapons used in the civil war. The poet is trying to escape however he’s finding it difficult to escape.

The first stanza set the scene for Vaudevue’s death, when the first stanza says ‘Left by the ebbing tide of battle’ it display that Vaudevue was left behind in the battlefield. She also sat alone on a flat stone. The language used in the stanza was repetition when it quotes ‘ she is ‘  when the poet uses the word ‘ she is ‘ he describes what Vaudevue is doing.

Features of the poem which portrays with the idea that the war has taken place in the future, when the poet added ‘ Incident in a future war’ which gives us a signal that the poem could be based on the future as well as when the poet state ‘ M.L.5 ‘ suggest that it was set in the future. At the present moment the word ‘ M.L.5 ‘ does not exist. M.L.5 is a weapon that can take someone memory, the weapon has a terrible affect on humans.

Techniques used in the poem were repetition ‘ alone ‘ and ‘ she is ‘ was used in the first stanza. The use of the repetition of alone it makes her vunrelable and fragile.

The Right Word the poet by Imtiaz Dharker born in Pakistan however brought up in Scotland- a British citizen. The poem is about language and identity how we see and judge other people by their appearance and how people may see and label themselves. The first stanza is about her witnessing a shadow and she assumed it was a terrorist. After the 9/11 terrorism Asia and other ethnic minorities has been targeted with the word terrorism which is racist and hypercritical. The word racism is based on religion because terrorist would always claim that their extremist Muslim. Another powerful word in the first stanza was when she quoted ‘lurking’ which is linking with shadow the word lurking is a verb and when Imatiaz Dharker it meant something that the boy was acting strange. If the boy was lurking it meant that her community was not united as one they were sparsely separated. Imatiaz Dharker was not secure in her own area knowing that a boy is just lurking and roaming in the area.

The second stanza is link to the the first stanza when Imatiaz Dharker question herself were she quoted ‘Is that a wrong description?’ of when she called the boy a terrorist because of his appearance.  She reflected on what she just implicated and knew she was wrong.