Resilience of Human Spirit in The Bright Lights of Sarajevo Poem Analysis How does the poet use language and structure to show the resilience of the human

Resilience of Human Spirit in The Bright Lights of Sarajevo Poem Analysis How does the poet use language and structure to show the resilience of the human spirit in the face of the devastation and destruction of war? — based on the poem ‘ The bright lights of Sarajevo’ 5
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International GCSE English Language (Specification A) – Paper 2 Section A Poetry and Prose texts
The dark – metaphorical (ward.
Bosnia
and actugine Bright Lights of Sarajevo
After the hours that Sarajevans pass
queuing with empty canisters of gas
to get the refills they wheel home in prams,
or queuing for the precious meagre grams
of bread they’re rationed to each day.
tand often dodging snipers on the way,
for struggling up sometimes eleven flights
of stairs with water, then you’d think
that the nights
of Sarajevo would be totally devoid
e ordinary
of people walking streets Serb shells destroyed,
but tonight in Sarajevo that’s just not the case-
of the story.
civilians
The young go walking at a stroller’s pace, the tension between
A budding
black shapes impossible to mark
as Muslim, Serb or Croat in such dark.
In unlit streets you can’t distinguish who
ethniciting ( that caused the
calls bread hjleb or hleb or calls it kruh.
war) and the teenagers’
All take the evening air with stroller’s stride,
no torches guide them but they don’t collide
except as one of the flirtatious ploys
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when a girl’s dark shape is fancied by a boy’s.
enjabment
mimics the narration
Anophora
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romance between
young people
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lack of interest in it)
relaxed mood
very npety
romantic
relationship-
Then the tender radar of the tone of voice
shows by its signals she approves his choice.
Then match or lighter to a cigarette
to check in her eyes if he’s made progress yet.
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o the city!
emories of Sozlific
acidents, the
ars giving
the boobers.
the light from
guidance
And I see a pair who’ve certainly progressed
the damages the beyond the tone of voice and match-flare test
nflict has done and he’s about, I think, to take her hand
and lead her away from where they stand
the
on two shell scars, where in ’92
Serb mortars massacred the breadshop queue
and blood-dunked crusts of shredded bread
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lay on the pavement with the broken dead.
And at their feet in holes made by the mortar
that caused the massacre, now full of water
from the rain that’s poured down half the day,
though now even the smallest clouds have cleared away,
leaving the Sarajevo star-filled evening sky
ideally bright and clear for bomber’s eye, irony
in those two rain-full shell-holes the boy sees
40 fragments of the splintered Pleiades,
sprinkled on those death-deep, death-dark wells
splashed on the pavement by Serb mortar shells.
unity between the couple
to share coffee in a
45 until the curfew, and he holds her hand ㅋ
behind AID flour sacks refilled with sand.
mery hopeful steheshark boy shape leads dark girl shape away
alliteration
ring.
creating a hopeful
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tension
the damage the war has done to the city is the romanti
relationships being depicted.
the normality of young people’s lives against the
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