Month: April 2015

At the border: It is about civil war. A girl who was from Iraq she migrated to Kurdistan because of the civil war in her country. Now she is returning home back to Iraq because the civil war is over. The man bends down on his knees and kisses his muddy homeland because he has been away for a very long time and cant wait to be home with his culture and language.

Belfast confetti: Belfast confetti is about a civil war happening in Belfast between the Protestant and the IRA . The man says I was trying  to complete a sentence in my head, but it kept stuttering. He cant think straight because he is scared of what’s happening in his town. He is surrounded by riots and bombs. The different of at the border and Belfast confetti is that in at the border the Iraqi family is so happy to go back home they can smell the muddy homeland. In Belfast confetti the man that lives there is scared of his home and is sad of what happening to his home he is anxious to leave because he is worried of dying.

At the border it is presented in first person. In the 5 stanza it says I was 5 years old standing by the checkpoint. This is first person it says I which is first person because your speaking about yourself and your experience. Belfast confetti is set in first person.

The poet had written at the border because he is showing how live is like for a family to finally go back home from Kurdistan. At the border shows real emotion because it tells you how emotional it can be away from your home for many years.  Being away from your home for years due to civil war it can be really devastating because family members could die because of the war friends could never be seen again. So this is telling you how lucky you are to be at home with your culture and family/friends. At the border sums up a family so happy to return home after civil war. Belfast confetti is similar to at the border both in first person. It is similar because both people had their country in civil wars  against each other. Belfast confetti  is a man that is caught in between a civil war by the IRA and the prodestants.

come on come back is a poem created by Stevie Smith.

1) I think because she is alone sitting on the stone dying away. It says she is is alone at midnight in the moonlight. This sound very depressing and its a setting where something bad is going to happen.  The darkness is bad evil setting so this is the setting for Vaudevue death.

2) M.L.5 sounds like its is in the future because M.L.5  sounds very robotic and would be in 400 years time. It says in the second stanza M.L.5 has left her alive only her memory is dead. This sounds like a tablet or gas made her memory go. This is something that can be developed in the future 400 years from now it abounds very futuristic.

3) In the second stanza it says “she fears and cries , ah why am I hear sitting alone on a round flat zone on a hummock”  This creates sadness because the girl is scared and crying asking herself why is she here. She is alone with no one to support her. This is sad because no one knows the pain she is going through and its upsetting that no one can help her and be with her she is all alone not knowing what to do because she has just been in a war and dead bodies every where with no help from her side.

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The Right Word Imtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan and brought up in Scotland

The right word is about Imtiaz Dharker’s poem “The Right Word” focuses on a figure that is in the shadows outside the narrator’s house. It is noticeable that the word outside appears in the first seven of the poem’s nine stanzas, and the word shadows or shadow in the first six. Because the figure is in the shadows, it is difficult to make out who or what he is, and so the narrator is searching for the right word to identify who the person is outside her window.Outside the door, lurking in the shadows, is a terrorist. Is that the wrong description? Outside that door, taking shelter in the shadows, is a freedom-fighter. I haven’t got this right. Outside, waiting in the shadows, is a hostile militant. The poem is about a suspicious and divided community, where different viewpoints lead to violence. The narrator tries to find an accurate way to describe a young activist who at first seems threatening. At the end, the activist seems to be just a harmless child. The poem is written in the first person, making it seem personal with consistent use of the personal pronoun ‘I’. The words lurking and taking shelter are two different words for the same action, but one sounds sinister and the other sounds vulnerable. It is clear from the first stanza that this is a political poem as the term ‘terrorist’ is still controversial.