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.