Ideas connecting them:
Both poems are about the actions, responses and description of each person during an extreme event. One event is war and one is a terrorist attack. Both events are dangerous causing destruction and causing death. Belfast confetti is in first person and bayonet charge is in the third person.
Techniques:
The use of the word ‘suddenly’ is used in both to put you straight in the action. It catches you out causing confusion and makes you desperate to read more. These emotions are felt by you as a reader just like the person in the poem is feeling. This is effective because your feelings are the same as the persons represented in the poem
Both poems also use alliteration in Bayonet Charge ‘cold clockwork’ and in Belfast Confetti ‘side streets’. This is done to make the poem flow, sounding the same and easier to be read. Looking at it wider the alliteration is used around the middle of the poem which represents the person is becoming in control and calmer being enforced by the way its read.
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