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Belfast ConfettiStructureTwo stanzas of equallength.First stanza is in the past tensedescribing the violence and theeffect of being caught up in itSecond stanza shifts suddenly intopresent – as if the narrator is suddenlyback in the experience, reliving the fear.Set in Northern Ireland during ‘The troubles’ – a period of terrorist incidentsbetween IRA and Ulster Unionists. It made Belfast a terrifying place to live.SubjectStyleBelfast Confetti’ is a euphemism for miscellaneous objects thrownduring the riots ‘nuts, bolts…’. Sometimes they were added to IRAbombs to cause more injury. Ironic – these objects usually holdthings together but in conflict used to injure and hurt. Also confettiusually thrown to celebrate a happy union rather than breakrelationships and create discord and havoc.Lists of words are used to create panic – riot gearappears menacing. Questions at the end are in list formto suggest confusion and remind us of the impersonalquestions the soldiers would be asking.Punctuation is used to make sense oflanguage – too much results in chaoticpanicky sentencesThe whole poem seems to be an extended metaphor for the wayviolent conflict destroys language (communication). Take awaylanguage and conflict cannot be resolved: ‘Raining exclamationmarks’ suggests sudden shouts of alarm ‘An asterisk on the map’ –looks as though there has been an explosion on paper/shape of anexplosion. ‘stuttering’ – sound of the ‘burst of rapid fire’/narratorcannot get his words out. All alleyways ‘blocked with stops’ in thesame way full stops halts the reader. ‘Fusillade’ – one shot beingfired after the other – effect one question being fired after the otheras the narrator struggles with fear and uncertainty.Goes well with Invasion and Parade's EndDoppelklick auf diesen KnotenKlicke und ziehe diese Schaltfläche, um einen neuen Knoten zu erstellen