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Belfast Confetti
Structure
Two stanzas of equal
length.
First stanza is in the past tense
describing the violence and the
effect of being caught up in it
Second stanza shifts suddenly into
present – as if the narrator is suddenly
back in the experience, reliving the fear.
Set in Northern Ireland during ‘The troubles’ – a period of terrorist incidents
between IRA and Ulster Unionists. It made Belfast a terrifying place to live.
Subject
Style
Belfast Confetti’ is a euphemism for miscellaneous objects thrown
during the riots ‘nuts, bolts…’. Sometimes they were added to IRA
bombs to cause more injury. Ironic – these objects usually hold
things together but in conflict used to injure and hurt. Also confetti
usually thrown to celebrate a happy union rather than break
relationships and create discord and havoc.
Lists of words are used to create panic – riot gear
appears menacing. Questions at the end are in list form
to suggest confusion and remind us of the impersonal
questions the soldiers would be asking.
Punctuation is used to make sense of
language – too much results in chaotic
panicky sentences
The whole poem seems to be an extended metaphor for the way
violent conflict destroys language (communication). Take away
language and conflict cannot be resolved: ‘Raining exclamation
marks’ suggests sudden shouts of alarm ‘An asterisk on the map’ –
looks as though there has been an explosion on paper/shape of an
explosion. ‘stuttering’ – sound of the ‘burst of rapid fire’/narrator
cannot get his words out. All alleyways ‘blocked with stops’ in the
same way full stops halts the reader. ‘Fusillade’ – one shot being
fired after the other – effect one question being fired after the other
as the narrator struggles with fear and uncertainty.
Goes well with Invasion and Parade's End
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