In the last four lines, juxtaposed with the previous dark and depressing imagery and the mood those images created, the entire atmosphere of the text lightens. Other examples include “clouds” and “cleared” in line thirty-six and “death-deep, death-dark” in line forty-two. Tony Harrison (born 30 April 1937) is an English poet, translator and playwright. Emma graduated from East Carolina University with a BA in English, minor in Creative Writing, BFA in Fine Art, and BA in Art Histories. He continues to analyze the scene in line twenty-seven. We notice that it is the male who ‘leads’ the girl away to the cafe. Introduction “The Bright Lights Of Sarajevo” is written by the author and poet Tony Harrison and is a new addition is the IGCSE English Language syllabus. Their bullets rain down, forcing normal people on the street to “dodg[e]” them. This phrase is an interesting one. . Darkness works in the same way. of people walking streets Serb shells destroyed, but tonight in Sarajevo that’s just not the case–. It is he who notices the detail of the location – the market place and the detail of the emerging stars, surely symbols of hope and peace, although as ever in this poem, tainted with the ideas of death. There are no lights for the two to see by, but it is worth using a match to “check in her eyes if he’s made progress yet”. Sentences are long – the first alone covers 16 lines as Harrison establishes his setting and presents his inversion – ‘After the hours… then you’d think…but tonight’. His central idea is that even here, in an earthly Hell, Eros can trump Thanatos and we can find hope for the future, lit by a candle and desperately fragile, but hope nonetheless. Please log in again. In this phrase Harrison also makes use of consonance or the use and reuse of constant sounds. from the rain that’s poured down half the day. At one time, the street the two are now standing on was full of “broken dead”. The photographer is hostage to his editors who seek ever more lurid images from the disaster zone, Alagiah likens reporters to ghouls, literally feeding off the victims of famine – Harrison is able to move beyond this – he is a poet. Preparing young people for the future with lessons from the past. The holes are a powerful reminder of the past, and a jolting return to the present. Harrison edges towards the conclusion of this run-on sentence in the eighth line. He can present ‘ideas’. All this suggests that night is now a time of relative sanctuary. What can a middle aged English teacher possibly find to write about? People have to wait in line for rations of gas and bread, never knowing if there will be enough. I have suggested before, when writing about Harrison’s The Bright Lights of Sarajevo that there is a link between the iambic pentameter and the heart beat.
