Both Hardi and Agard present conflict affecting feelings about a place. At the border and the flag presents the idea the war can affect an individual feeling their homes. This is demonstrating through a range of features in both poem with varying effect.

The protagonist wants to go home and is relived that war is now over whilst on the flag, it talks about the roots and causes of conflict and Agard is questioning whether, the flag represents about the country or does it symbolise the military. Agard uses repetitive question in the poem Agard question himself and then answer the question himself. On the other hand the poet is focusing on migration, she left Iraq and entered Kurdistan, shes returning back to Iraq on the fourth stanza it quotes ‘ My mother informed me; we are going back home’ It was joyful event to return back to there homeland because a man bent down and kissed his homeland. Hardi poem was in first person however Agard poem was in second person. Agard uses repetition each stanza has ‘just’ it effects our understanding, the reason why Agard used ‘Just’ because the flag was not a major deal in society however people are still killing each other just because of a cloth. Hardi using repetition of adverbs here symbolisms the mother’s view of home as a much better place than wherever it is they have came from.

Hardi presents flag as a human being by using personification saying that a flag has control over human beings cause it is instructing them and the humans are obeying by the rules. Alliteration