The poem Carrickfergus was written by an Irish writer called Louis

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The poem Carrickfergus was written by an Irish writer called Louis

MacNeice in The 20th Century.

The poem "Carrickfergus" was written by an Irish writer called Louis

MacNeice in The 20th Century. It was written in four line stanzas and

now I am going to analyse this poem and talk about each stanza.

In the first line of the first stanza, we notice that the child Louis

MacNeice is using specific detail in his poem as he says he was born

in Belfast between the mountain and the gantries. MacNeice was brought

up among a lot of divisions and when there was a lot of trouble going

on, he mentions divisions in his second stanza when he says, "The

Scotch Quarter was a line of residential houses, but the Irish Quarter

was a slum for the blind and halt." What he means is that the Scotch

Quarter is richer than the Irish Quarter and they can afford

residential houses but the Irish live in slums for the blind and halt.

The word Scotch Quarter and Irish Quarter were intentionally placed

together to show the divisions which existed at the time.

We can also see the use of onomat...

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