Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Conflict Poems: Belfast Confetti
- First Stanza
- 'Fount': Fountain
- First line 'drops' reader straight into the action
- 'Stuttering'; Onomatopoeic, imitates the sound of gunfire
- 'An asterisk on the map': Usually used to show an explosion on a map
- Punctuation: An extended metaphor
- 'Stops and colons': Dead ends
- 'Hyphenated line': Gunfire
- In past tense
- Second Stanza
- 'Labyrinth': Maze
- Links to being trapped
- 'Balaclava, Raglan, Inkerman, Odessa Street' : All names that have been turned English
- 'Fusillade' : Lots of people firing at once
- Questions in line 9: Suggests confusion or questioning of identity
- 'Every move is punctuated' : Implies violence and hesitation
- 'Kremlin-2 mesh' : A type of tank
- Ciaran Carson
- Born in Belfast in 1948
- Born into Catholicism
- Lived on Raglan Street
- Was 12 years old before he first met a Protestant
- Was bilingual, Irish was home language