Belfast Confetti opening lines & title
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- Belfast Confetti
- Context
- 'The Troubles'
- Catholic vs. Protestant
- sectarian conflict
- Republicans vs.Unionists
- 1969-1997
- British army removed in 2005
- Catholic vs. Protestant
- 'The Troubles'
- "Belfast Confetti"
- Northern Ireland
- "Confetti"
- Euphemism
- link to line 3
- Usually for celebration not war
- Euphemism
- "Suddenly"
- In medias red
- Reflects panic and fear
- In medias red
- "raining exclamation marks" (line 1-2)
- Shouting? Guns?
- Destruction
- Panic
- Punctuation
- words as weapons
- form of resistance
- Replicates the breaks in Ireland itself
- Poem is about inability to communicate
- Ironic
- Confusion
- Exclamations
- dangerous
- to maim
- dangerous
- words as weapons
- Enjambment
- Shouting? Guns?
- "Nuts, bolts, nails, car-keys"
- Shrapnel
- Lack high-tech military weaponry
- no remotes, suicide bombers
- Lack high-tech military weaponry
- List of everyday items
- improvised
- Lack high-tech military weaponry
- no remotes, suicide bombers
- Lack high-tech military weaponry
- improvised
- Shrapnel
- Context
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