Compare “come up from the fields farther” by Walt Whitman and “Belfast confetti” by Ciaran Carson explore how the poets creates a feeling of helplessness.
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Compare "come up from the fields farther" by Walt Whitman and "Belfast confetti" by Ciaran Carson explore how the poets creates a feeling of helplessness. In this essay I will compare the two poems, "Belfast Confetti" and "come up from the fields farther" and show, how they show how they covey the feeling of helplessness. Walt Witmens poem "come up from the fields farther" was written in 1880, Ciaron Carson's poem "Belfast confetti" was written in 1985. War in both the poems, creates a feeling of helplessness although they were written at almost 100 years apart, and written about different wars, no matter what they do they cannot change a thing. I will demonstrate how despite the differences in time, both poems are very effective in exploring the theme of helplessness. In the poem, "Belfast confetti" the narrator in the poem is the poet himself, though in "come up from the...

