The Bright Lights Of Sarajevo Analysis
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- Created on: 30-03-20 07:53
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- The Bright Lights of Sarajevo
- Quotes supporting themes
- War
- "often dodging snipers on the way"
- "Serb Mortars massacred the breadshop queue
- "and blood-dunked crusts of shredded bread."
- Love
- "No torches to guide them but they don't collide
- "the young go walking at strolling pace."
- War
- Juxtaposition
- Love and War
- Harrison juxtaposes the two against each other in order to convey the message that love is greater than war
- By doing this Harrison, shows that love guides them through the darkness (the war)
- 'no torches guide them, but they don't collide'
- Harrison juxtaposes the two against each other in order to convey the message that love is greater than war
- Day and Night
- The day in the poem, is plagued by war, as snipers and mortars run loose, and civilians stay locked up at home, scared
- "black shapes impossible to mark as Muslim, Serb or Croat"
- By doing this, he shows that there is a future where the city lives in peace, a future where people are acknowledged as equal regardless of their religion
- "black shapes impossible to mark as Muslim, Serb or Croat"
- In contrast, the night is more peaceful, the fighting stops and the darkness hides figures from snipers, and everyone, regardless of their
- The day in the poem, is plagued by war, as snipers and mortars run loose, and civilians stay locked up at home, scared
- Love and War
- Context
- The poem is set during the Siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War in 1992
- The war is defined as ethnic cleansing, where a lot of the war focused on attacking Bosniaks
- Quotes supporting themes
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