Month: April 2015

At the boarder  focus on conflict and civil war, the poem is the aftermath of a war which happened in Iraq the conflict. The poet eventually returns to her home land of Kurdistan, the poet is writing about her life as a young refugee and re creates the experience through a child s eye. The persecution of Sadam Hussain led to the family fleeing again. The family sound helpless and anxious when crossing the boarder , the adults are very emotional and the poet cant understand why they are so emotinal when both boarders look exactly the same.

The right word also focus on conflict after the terroist attck on the twin towers in America, the poet concentrates on how war has made humans look at people differently the poet also emphasises the feelings. The feelings are similar to at the boader such as fear confusion suspicion and also self doubt.

First Imitiaz starts to

1) The first stanza set the clue that Vandeveue is going to die, by the sentences the poet such as “she is alone” “left by ebbing tide of battle” these give us clues because the poet repeats that she is left alone this makes us think that maybe something bad is going to happen to her and that she needs help. Also the setting is set a midnight this also means that Vandevue is not in a good position,

2) The features the poet uses is they talk about human exterminators which means human are becoming extinct or that a certain type of humans are. The poet also mentions a thing called M.L.5 which have taken her memory, this tells us that its in the future because we know that there is no recall of it in the past and it does not exist in the present so therefore its must be set in the future.

3) Repetition gives a feeling of sadness because its trying to emphasise that Vandevue is deserted and abandoned

How has the poet presented the effects of conflict in the “Right Word” through choices of language and structure?

1)This poem is about a women who is very suspicious about a person outside her location who she thinks it’s a terrorist who is threating her safety.

2) This poet wrote this poem because of the tragic event of 9//11 and how after that event peoples deception became  negative  on how someone looks or dresses some type of way

3) The feelings of this story are very strong in the case of the words the poet uses such as lurking, terrorist, and shadows these words give a strong effect to the reader because it indicates us that the poet is  sinister or negative or even controversial.

4) This poem uses these effects because of the vocabulary it uses especially in the first stanza when the poet uses the word “Lurking” the verb is associated with