Belfast Confetti

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This poem is about the conflict between the Catholics and Protestants, known as The Troubles, when in the 1960’s the Catholic community claimed they were being discriminated against by the Protestants. Carson has used the first-person narrative style to describe his feelings in the most efficient way. It is a free verse poem.

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He was bestowed with the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize for “The Irish For No” (1987) and has also won the Irish Times’ Irish Literature Prize for Poetry for ‘Belfast Confetti’. Besides being an author and a novelist, he is also a well-known musician and columnist. He has still not left his pen.JuststartingtomakenotesoncomparisonbutIcan'tfigureoutwhichpoemstocompare,alsorllyhardtofindresourcesonlineforedexcel(mostofstuffisaqa).soifanyonehasanyresourcesthatwouldbehelpfullmk.

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This poem is about the aftermath of the “Troubles” that were an ethnic-nationalist period of conflict in Northern Ireland. The situation lasted for 30 years from the late 1960s to the late 1990s. It is also known as the Northern Ireland conflict. The poet describes the aftermath of the sectarian riot in Belfast. His speaker describes how the confusion outside leads to a chain of internal confusions. He cannot think properly. The events that he observed keep flooding his mind, leaving him only with questions. The allegory of using punctuation to symbolises the horrors of the riot continues here. Carson identifies how full ‘stops’ and ‘colons’ act like a barrier between two sentences or clauses in literature and transfers this to barriers, likely scattered debris, to the riot-torn streets. In the 1970’s the Irish nationalist groups started to use violence in an attempt to gain independence from Britain. The British army occupied the streets of Northern Ireland to protect the Catholics. However, they saw it as an unwanted occupation. Outside History by Eavan Boland – This poem speaks on the larger history of Ireland, the role of women in history, and the life of stars. Read more Eavan Boland poems.Line 8: “S,” “r,” “c,” “n,” “K,” “r,” “m,” “n,” “m,” “sh,” “M,” “k,” “r,” “c,” “sh,” “s,” “W,” “k,” “k,” “s,” “W,” “s” The following poems similarly showcase the themes included in Ciaran Carson’s haunting lyric ‘Belfast Confetti’. Ciaran Carson is a poet and novelist who was born in Northern Ireland and has always had a deep passion for politics. He grew up in an era of political uproar and Northern Irish terrorism that scarred the Uk’s political and social life. Around the 1970’s the IRA (Irish Republican Army) failed to retrieve independence from British rule.