Leaving Belfast

Focused on a conflictive time for capital of Northern Ireland, Andrew Motion tries to express the devastation that capital of Northern Ireland suffered during the economys counterbalance old age and the influence that the semipolitical issues had in the society. The narrators sadness for having to get away his beloved urban center can be matte all over the metrical composition. The numbers was publish at a very difficult time for capital of Northern Ireland. Conflicts and violence were bow in all the streets.On the one hand, manufacturing industries were on a c blood line and economy was in its worst situation on the other hand, the city was divided in two parts the Catholics and the Pro examinationants. The verse form introduced us two people going away to the airport. One of them has decided to stay In the city, that the other wants to leave It. On the way to the airport, the narrator looks back from the top of the hills of the road and gets nostalgia for sledding the city behind. The author uses lots of descriptions which be representative of the sadness of the narrator, but also of the image that the city had acquired.As the narrator states, he doesnt leave Belfast because of fear, although the violence of the bombs could make him feel sc ard he leave it because he feels like a stranger in his own city and because the political issues are having a tremendous impact in the habitants of the city. In the exsert part of the poem, the narrators apologizes what is the thing near annoying for him. His beloved city doesnt search to be on the way of the change so, unfortunately, he has to leave from Belfast and let it behind. Leaving Belfast Is a 7 stanzas poem consisted of 4 lines In each stanza, what we call a quat fall.The feet analyzed In the poem dont seem to have any relation between them, but we could affirm that although the position of the stressed syllable doesnt seem to have any concordance, most of them are what we call Rising feet, because in most of the occasions the unstressed syllables receive to appear before the stressed one and not the other way. The poem is a free verse poem it doesnt respect any tied(p) rhyme scheme as it is written in a communicative way, using the narrative techniques that were widespread in the 20th century, trying to ruminate his feelings by he words of a narrator.The first stanza introduces us the primary(prenominal) characters, the one staying in Belfast and the one leaving. In the second and the trine stanza the narrator, the one staying, tell us about the way they have through leaving Belfast, how he feels doing it and what he see while he Is pitiful away. In the next stanzas, the narrator builds up a strong feel of devastation referral to Belfast. He shows us a society which Is In decline and under a world of violence. Finally, in the last stanzas, he expresses his feelings in this tuition, feeling like a stranger, and goes ahead with his decision to leave the city.The po em, which at first sight doesnt seem to be very complex, hides lots of rhetorical devices that should be mentioned. The devices that appear more regularly are the figurative ones, which explain something but in an inordinate way. The biggest example could be what we call Imagery. The test is very rich in images of Belfast, as the narrator helps the reader to fancy the way Belfast is decaying and how it is not more a sweet home(a) for him. This can be perceived all along in the poem because he entire poem is highly representative of the Belfast society.There are other type of devices such as Paradox, on the first line of the third stanza, geographies of punishment and love Personifications, third stanza silence deepens under rain or fifth stanza the moon filling rooms with shadow administration or also Metaphors, third stanza gust of light explains itself as flames referring to the suns flashes, which are so heavy as flames, or in the last stanza until it disappears at last in da rkness Referring to his Journey, that he has already left Belfast behind.The sound techniques, on the other hand, are not so clear. The most representative one could be the use of the stressed words make by the author, which immerse the reader in the Belfast atmosphere. The poem reflects the salient situation Belfast was suffering in those days where violence was reciprocal in the whole town. The poem has been created by the strong emotions Andrew Motion felt for his country and hometown, because the authors own feelings of the topic are represented everywhere. Those many lucubrate allow us to picture the Belfast scene.